Crucially, the book not only documents out-of-class literacy activities, but also examines which teaching practices facilitate and promote such out-of-class language learning and use. It considers which literacy activities in the target language students undertake out-of-class, which factors encourage or discourage such out-of-class activity and how and with which tools they undertake these activities. As such the book provides guidance for classroom teaching and suggests that slight changes to teaching practices in the classroom may enhance autonomous learning outside the classroom.
Miho Inaba is Lecturer in Japanese language in the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University, UK. Her research interests include autonomous language learning, language learning motivation, sociocultural theory, ICT and foreign language learning.