Elspeth Broady is Principal Lecturer in the School of Languages, University of Brighton. With initial training as a teacher of French and EFL, she now teaches Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics and Materials Design on undergraduate and postgraduate language teacher education courses. She has produced several textbooks, videos and CD-ROMS for language learners, and has worked as a consultant for BBC and Open University language courses. Her teacher education projects include work on video, ICT and learner autonomy for the Council of Europe and Tempus programmes. Her research interests are in the area of learning strategies, learner autonomy and learners' use of explicit grammatical knowledge.