The Applied Linguistic Individual Sociocultural Approaches to Identity, Agency and Autonomy

Phil Benson is a Professor in and Head of the English Department at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, where he teaches on the Department's Masters and Doctor of Education programmes. He is also director of the Faculty of Languages Popular Culture and Education Research and Development Centre. He has published widely on the subject of autonomy, including the book Teaching and Researching Autonomy (Pearson, 2011). Lucy Cooker is a Researcher and PhD Candidate at the University of Nottingham and a consultant on self-access language learning. Prior to her doctoral studies, Lucy was a Senior Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan where she established the award winning self-access learning centre.