Anja Burkert is a teacher of English (and French) at the University of Graz, Austria. She holds a Ph. D. in language teaching methodology and is especially interested in the teaching of English as an academic language and the promotion of learner autonomy among her students. She obtained a teaching award from her university in 2010. Anja has been on the IATEFL Learner Autonomy SIG committee since 2008.
Leni Dam, former coordinator of the IATEFL Learner Autonomy SIG, was a teacher in a Danish comprehensive school for 40 years developing language learner autonomy in her English classes.
At the same time, she was an in-service teacher trainer and school developer at University College for Copenhagen and North Zealand. She has published widely, two examples of which are Learner Autonomy: From Theory to Practice, 1995, and Language learner Autonomy: Theory, Practice, and Research, 2017, together with David Little and Lienhard Legenhausen. She is now freelance, running courses and workshops, and giving talks on issues connected to language learner autonomy. Christian Ludwig is currently Professor of ELT at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
His teaching and research interests include enhancing learner autonomy in the EFL classroom as well as computer-assisted language learning. His main focus of research lies in the reconstruction of gender and other identities in contemporary young adult dystopias and South African literature. Since 2015 he has been the coordinator of the IATEFL Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group and external consultant for Cornelsen Publishing.
He has been visiting scholar at, among others, universities in South Africa, Japan, and Belgium.
At the same time, she was an in-service teacher trainer and school developer at University College for Copenhagen and North Zealand. She has published widely, two examples of which are Learner Autonomy: From Theory to Practice, 1995, and Language learner Autonomy: Theory, Practice, and Research, 2017, together with David Little and Lienhard Legenhausen. She is now freelance, running courses and workshops, and giving talks on issues connected to language learner autonomy. Christian Ludwig is currently Professor of ELT at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
His teaching and research interests include enhancing learner autonomy in the EFL classroom as well as computer-assisted language learning. His main focus of research lies in the reconstruction of gender and other identities in contemporary young adult dystopias and South African literature. Since 2015 he has been the coordinator of the IATEFL Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group and external consultant for Cornelsen Publishing.
He has been visiting scholar at, among others, universities in South Africa, Japan, and Belgium.