Recent literature concerning the support of initiatives promoting language learner autonomy around the world

Gläsmann describes autonomy-promoting online learning communities and looks at how creating and maintaining such a community can be facilitated, while Reinders presents a new interactive virtual learning environment which supports students in the self-access centre in a way which leaves responsibility with the learners. [...]Learner and teacher autonomy: [...]that there is a danger of a dogmatic application of autonomy. [...]he advocates a needs-based attention to the support of the individual student which is pragmatic, flexible, not worked out in advance, and not based on a philosophy of encouraging autonomy.