WEEK 7: Learner Autonomy

This week we have learned  about the learner autonomy. There was an interesting article written by Thanasoulas, Sheu, Interconnections  who explains that learner autonomy does not mean that the teacher becomes redundant abdicating his or her control over what is transpiring in the language learning process.

It is important to understand that the learning autonomy is a perennial dynamic process amenable educational interventions rather than a static product, a state, which is reached once and for all.

The term autonomy has been used in different ways but it includes independence, language awareness, self-direction. The autonomous learner takes a proactive role in the learning process. To develop the learner autonomy could involve: learner needs, motivation, learning strategies and language awareness. Autonomy does not mean teacher less learning. It means that the teacher must show the way to use or discover the mental steps or operations that learners use to regulate their effort to learn.

Then, I made a sample of one computer class plan. I followed the steps to make a class which involves Web site: http://www.rong-chang.com/easyread/es/easy118.htm: Problems at home.

In the sample I mentioned general information about the class, theme, duration, number of students, the materials used in class, the introduction to the class, the ABCD objective for this lesson, the procedure, the activities, the way I used technology ( computer, projector, internet, etc, and the final activity.

Best regards,

Pitie, Ecuador