FACILITATIVE ASPECTS OF LEARNER’S AUTONOMY

B. LEARNING Enhancement of Autonomy in Language Learners

Successful second language acquisition presumes a sustained active involvement of the learner. The approach suggested is to complement and enhance the strategic teaching of new language. Development of students’ autonomy through focused augmentation of awareness in language learning in general and individual learning style in particular is emphasized. Detailed description of implementation and ...

Ariadne’s thread, daedalus’ wings and the learners autonomy

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...

The Relationship among Learning Strategy, Autonomy and Language Proficiency of Chinese EFL Learners

This study attempted to investigate the relationship among learning strategy, autonomy and language proficiency of Chinese university EFL students. To achieve this objective, purposive sampling and cluster sampling methods were used to select 422 non-English major students as participants in three universities, Henan province, China. Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SIL...

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...