This is my presentation week, so I'm going to keep my comments here to a minimum. You'll all hear what I have to say later anyway. :)

I really love the concept of language awareness. It's pretty much advocating teaching rhetoric in an ESL classroom. Rhetoric is a really useful tool for understanding why language functions as it does. By studying the effects that language has on it's listeners and speakers at all times, we can consciously choose to use language in ways that produce our desired outcome.

Learner autonomy is also a really great education tool. It advocates giving learners a chance to take charge of their own education and make their own educational decisions. I really like this concept too, since I know that my best work has been done when I have a chance to make some of my own decisions in a classroom.