Learner Autonomy

Learner Autonomy

The ELP has a reporting and a pedagogical function.
Represents information about the owner’s experince of learning and using second/foreign languages and concrete evidence of language learning achievement.
Helps to make language learning more transparent to learners, developing their capacity for reflection and self-assessment, and thus enabling them gradually to assume more and more responsibility for their own learning. (In this way it serves as a tool for promoting the development of learner autonomy.)
Learning depends on partnership.

(Little,1991; Dam,1995)
Self-assessment and assessment by others should support one another.
Lifelong learning implies autonomy for including choices.
To Foster Learner Autonomy : I am following the strategy below...

Learner Teacher Dialogue
Dear Everybody Letter (app. 1)
Personal Interaction
Advice on Learning
Setting and Clarifying the Objectives (app. 2 Syllabus)
Persuasive Communication
Learning Linguistics Theme
Last Years Evaluations (app. 3 last year evaluations)
Views of other learners who experienced the process
Works of Others ( app. 4 Poems)
Student Evaluation Form
Keeping Diary
Self-reports
Evaluation Sheets
given every two weeks
give possibility fot students to express their views
help them monitor themselves outside the classroom
students are encouraged to see from inside out and the out-of-class dimensions of the tasks and activities.
Projects to be done outside the classroom
Giving the feedback of the exams as soon as possible, not later than 2 days after the exam.

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