"For many years the 1996 edited collection Taking Control Autonomy in Language Learning has been an influential landmark in the field of learner autonomy, contributing to our understanding of how learner control can support and enhance language learning.

"Maintaining Control is an impressive collection of papers from an impressive collection of authors. The breadth and the depth of this collection demonstrate a maturity in the field of autonomy in language learning that makes this 'must read' book of rele

Richard Pemberton teaches MA TESOL and PhD students in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham (UK). Before that he coordinated the Self-Access Centre team for thirteen years at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and was editor of Taking Control Autonomy in Language Learning. Sarah Toogood advises, writes materials to support self-access learners and teaches in the Language Centre at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She has been actively researching and promoting Self-Access Language Learning since 1995 when she joined the SAC team, playing a key role in the Hong Kong Association for Self-Access Learning and Development (HASALD) and convening the 2004 conference, 'Autonomy and Language Learning Maintaining Control'. Andy Barfield teaches in the Faculty of Law at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. He has been actively involved in the field of learner development for over fifteen years. His research interests include learner autonomy in second language education and learners' L2 collocation development.