Autonomous English learning.
Steps into autonomous learning.
(Lowry,2008)
1.-Teacher becomes less of an instructor and
more of facilitator.
2.-Teacher decreases importance as main souce of knowledge.
3.-Students capacity to learn for themselves encouraged.
4.-Students encouraged to make decisions about what they learn.
5.-Students awareness of their own learning styles encouraged.
6.-Students encouraged to develop their own learning strategies.
Learning style preferences and learning strategies.
(Jepri et al.,2014)
Visual.
-Diagrams.
-Charts.
-Flash cards.
-Highlight (colour coding).
-Draw boxes/circles.
Auditory.
-Repeat info.
-Study with a partner.
-Listen to music (no lyrics).
-Talk to yourself -Tape yourself.
Kinaesthetic.
-Personalise info -Break reading tasks into small chunks.
-Use fingers to keep track of where you are.
-Use your hands explaining concepts to yourself.
-Stop after each chunk.
Characteristics of an autonomous.
(Lowry,2008)
*Have a insights into their learning style and
strategies.
*Take an active approach to the learning task.
*Are willing to take risks.
*Are good guessers.
*Attend to form as well as to content (place
importance on accuracy as well as appropriacy.)
*Are willing to revise and reject hypothesis and rules that do not apply.
*Have a tolerant and outgoing approach to the target language.
Learning strategies.
(Thanasoulas, 2000)
Cognitive strategies.
*Repetition, imitating others speech.
*Resourcing (using dictionaries and other materials.)
*Translation.
*Note-taking.
*Deduction.
*Contextualisation.
*Transfer (knowledge in L1 applied to L2.)
*Asking for clarification.
Metacognitive strategies.
*Directed attention: deciding in advance to concentrate on general aspects of task.
*Directed attention: deciding in advance to concentrate on general aspects of task.
*Selective attention: Paying attention to specific aspects of a task.
*Self-monitoring: Checking one's performace as one speaks.
*Self-evaluation: appraising one's perfomance in relation to one's own standards.
*Self-reinforcement: Rewarding oneself for success.