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Attempts to achieve large-scale pedagogical innovation are depressingly prone to failure. A new theoretical concept stimulates the development of novel approaches; these are implemented by a small group of pioneers whose enthusiasm creates a band-wagon effect; as a result the theoretical concept is simplified and the pedagogical approaches are diluted; and what seemed at first to promise so much gradually disappears in the mainstream, to be followed in due course by another innovation — which will probably meet the same fate.
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Little, D. (2007). Introduction: Reconstructing Learner and Teacher Autonomy in Language Education. In: Barfield, A., Brown, S.H. (eds) Reconstructing Autonomy in Language Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596443_1
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