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Task Based Language Learning and Teaching

Writing and Identity. The Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing: Roz Ivanic. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998. ISBN: 90 272 1798 X (Eur) /1-556 19-323-8 (US)

Designing for learning in an open world

This is a systematic review conducted to explore the primary research literature on student agency in higher education, as well as links between student agency and student learning. Out of more tha...

Does student agency benefit student learning? A systematic review of higher education research

Abstract In today’s world, individuals should be able to maintain their expertise amidst constant changes. Thus, this type of agency should be supported in higher education. One approach for a teacher-researcher to examine supporting agency and how it manifests itself in higher education courses is through the learning design. In this article, learning design is defined as the planned course path and the way in which that path is enacted in the course in a real-life setting. Thus, the learning design of a blended EAP course is examined, with a focus on the course assignments in two different groups in two consecutive years. Different types of agency were assumed through the tasks and those types of agency were expressed in the learners’ completed texts. For example, tasks in which learners were positioned as traditional “students” presented problems in terms of the learners’ agency. Instead, tasks fostering the learners’ position as experts, their initiative and accountability to draw on their life-worlds were deemed to support the type of agency necessary and valuable for academic graduates. Design-based research strategy was employed to allow a cyclical process of developing the design based on the results of the previous cycle. It is hoped that the insights gained through the research might inform the planning of higher education language courses.

Riina Seppälä

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Beyond the "Student" Position: Pursuing Agency by Drawing on Learners' Life-Worlds on an EAP Course.