Foreword; Phil Benson Introduction; Carol J. Everhard and Linda Murphy 1. The Assessment-Autonomy Relationship; Carol J. Everhard 2. Measuring Language Learner Problems and possibilities; Fumiko Murase 3. Assessing Learner A Dynamic Model; Maria-Giovanna Tassinari 4. Assessment as Learner Autonomy; Lucy Cooker 5. Investigating Peer- and Self-assessment of Oral Skills as Stepping-stones to Autonomy in EFL Higher Education; Carol J. Everhard 6. Autonomy in Bridging the Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in a Distance Language Learning Context; Linda Murphy Epilogue; Sara Cotterall and Diane Malcolm