EFL teachers’ challenges in promoting learner autonomy in the 21st-century learning

Challenges in Promoting EFL Learners' Autonomy: Iranian EFL Teachers’ Perspectives

Learner autonomy (LA) has always been a controversial issue among applied linguists. Several studies have been carried out to investigate the teachers' and learners' perceptions of learner autonomy as well as the feasibility of learner autonomy. Despite the importance of learner autonomy and the existence of several related studies, the challenges in promoting LA in Iranian institutes to the re...

Learner Autonomy in Language Learning: Teachers’ Beliefs

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EFL Teachers’ Conceptions of Learner Autonomy: Developing a Glocalized Model

Learner autonomy (henceforth LA) has become a buzz word in education in general and language education, in particular, for more than a decade now. Focusing on investigating Iranian EFL teachers’ conceptions of LA, the current study, taking a mixed method approach, attempted to illustrate how Iranian EFL teachers’ conceptions of leaner autonomy mapped out. To that end, 7 teachers, purposefully c...

Iranian EFL Experienced vs. Novice Teachers’ Beliefs Regarding Learner Autonomy

Learner autonomy has been described as the ultimate objective in many language teaching programs since the third quarter of the twentieth century and educators have highlighted the significant role of promoting learner autonomy in the process of language learning and teaching. However, only limited number of studies has been awarded to what leaner autonomy mean to teachers. This study addressed...