Hurd S., Lewis T. Language Learning Strategies in Independent Settings

Collected papers. — Bristol (England): Multilingual Matters, 2008. — 347 p. — (Second Language Acquisition).This volume of collected papers covers language learning strategies from a variety of standpoints in an international context. Its contributors are researchers and practitioners from the UK, the United States, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Canada, all of whom have written extensively
in the fi eld. Two of them (Andrew Cohen and Cynthia White) were key-note speakers at the ‘Independent Language Learning: New Research Directions’ conference hosted by the Open University, UK in December 2003. Others have been invited to contribute on the basis of their pre-viously published work. A number of chapters are written by members of the Department of Languages at the Open University, who have consider-able experience of the theory and practice of distance language learning. Their inputs are equally applicable to other independent settings.