由Richard Pemberton,Sarah Toogood和Andy Barfield三位教授主编的《维持控制:自主性与语言学习》(Maintaining Control:Autonomy and Language Learning)一书于2009年由香港大学出版社出版。“自主性学习”是当前外语学习中广为提及的一个理念,旨在培养学生自主性学习能力,进而提高外语学习的效果。这种理念完全符合“以学生为中心”课堂 The book “Maintaining Control: Autonomy and Language Learning”, edited by three professors Richard Pemberton, Sarah Toogood and Andy Barfield, was published in 2009 by the Hong Kong University Press. “Autonomous Learning ” is a concept widely mentioned in current foreign language learning, aiming at cultivating students’ autonomous learning ability and further enhancing the effect of foreign language learning. This philosophy fits perfectly with the “student-centered” classroom