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Leni Dam

Leni Dam
Coordinator of the LA Special Interest Group (IATEFL)

Biographical Information

Leni Dam graduated as a teacher of English and Mathematics in 1964.

In 1973, she took her first steps towards developing learner autonomy with a group of 14-year-old mixed-ability students learning English at a comprehensive school south of Copenhagen. In the following years, language learner autonomy was developed in all her classes at primary as well as secondary level.

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In 1979, she combined teaching at school with a job as an educational adviser and in-service teacher trainer at University College, Copenhagen till she retired in 2006. In 2004, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in pedagogy by Karlstad University, Sweden.

Together with Lienhard Legenhausen, Münster University, Germany, she has studied the linguistic development of learners in autonomous classroom environments. Her areas of interest are the development of learner autonomy, differentiated teaching and learning