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Although Applied Linguistics research now emphasizes the social over the individual, qualitative research approaches often foreground the individual. Identity, agency and autonomy have also emerged as important, but contested, constructs in sociocultural approaches to research This book addresses the current status of the 'Applied Linguistic individual' through contributions, from Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America, that discuss the role of the individual in research from perspectives including Sociocultural Theory, Situated Learning, Imagined Communities, Complexity Theory, and Autonomy Theory. The first part of the book examines theoretical tensions between the social and the individual in their approaches, while the second part explores how they are resolved in data-based research.

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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.

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