EFL Learners’ Language Learning Effort and Autonomy in Online Distance Education in Higher Education

Although there were a massive increasing number of online English learners, not much research has clarified the assumed relationships between language learning effort and learner autonomy in context distance higher education. This paper aims to investigate compare EFL learners’ levels foreign perceptions Data was collected from 220 freshmen students taking an course studying various disciplines at state university Turkey. Two questionnaires used order explore relationship learners. The Foreign Language Learning Effort Scale (Karabıyık & Mirici, 2018) assess participants’ Autonomy Perception (Demirtaş, 2010) administered so as identify level towards learning. Additionally, background information form also utilized determine individual participants. study designed based on baseline descriptive survey method. data analyzed using basic statistics (means standard deviations) Pearson correlation coefficients analysis. results displayed that learners often employed language. Moreover, generally capable autonomous skills although they had capacity employ some sufficient degree