This study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (DST) and cognitive linguistics (CL) insights into grammar instruction on EFL learners’ learning of English prepositions and learner autonomy. Sixty Iranian EFL learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. The 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...

introduction. despite the implementation of hospital autonomy in many developed (france, denmark) and developing countries(ghana, zimbabwe, kenya and indonesia) since the early 1980s , relatively little research has been directed towards evaluating the experiences of these hospitals .efficiency, equity, accountability and quality of care can be considered as four main evaluative criteria in ass...

In ‘The Choice Theory of Contracts’, we advance a claim about the centrality autonomy to contract. Since publishing Theory, have engaged dozens reviews and responses; here, reply Robert Stevens, Arthur Ripstein, Brian Bix. All this rigorous debate confirms for us one core point: contract’s ultimate value must be autonomy, properly understood refined. Autonomy is telos contract its grounding pri...

  Abstract Autonomy is the ability to take charge of one’s own learning. However, this ability is not inborn and must be acquired by formal instruction (Holec, 1981). Therefore, to offer a systematic approach to the devel-opment of learner autonomy in language learning process, Benson (2001) argues that learner autonomy is described in terms of learners’ control over the three dimensions of lea...