Fostering autonomous learning has become one of the key concerns of course designers and curriculum planners in the last 20 years which has been validated on both ideological and psychological grounds. However, estimating learners’ readiness to accept autonomous education is an important step prior to moving toward autonomous education. Thus, the current research investigated the patterns of au...

This paper chronicles some issues that arose in attempting to implement two simple planners that interleave planning and execution. (For brevity, such planners will be called IPE planners.) The IPE planners are based on UCPOP (Barrett et al. 1993), a classic operator-based planner using goal-regression. Unfortunately, while the planners succeeded on very simple problems, they failed on problems...

Motivation is one of the significant factors that ensure effective teaching and learning foreign languages. The present study explored major motivational influencing EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners at University Barishal, Bangladesh. Both quantitative qualitative approaches have been employed to collect essential information from randomly selected two hundred fifty students surveye...