Teachers have always known that successful students are usually those who have the skills and attitudes to take responsibility for their own learning. In this talk, we will look at what research into learner autonomy tells us about what it is and what we can do to develop it. While learner autonomy is especially significant when teaching teenagers and adults, the skills and mindset needed should be developed at all ages. Come to this talk if you want to understand better what learner autonomy really means, and how it can be developed.
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Online resources:
Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group, IATEFL: lasig.iatefl.org/
Innovation in teaching: Hayo Reinders -innovationinteaching.org
Cambridge University Press ELT Blog -articles and recordings on improving your English language teaching www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/
Learning to Learn -free course from the Open University, UK. Aimed at university students: www.open.edu/openlearn/educat...
The Learning Scientists -free resources and podcasts on what research tells us about effective learning: www.learningscientists.org/
Kathleen Bailey discussing learner autonomy and communication training: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ar...
Education Endowment Foundation: great resource for research into teaching and learning, and its implications educationendowmentfoundation....
Harvard Graduate School of Education: excellent podcasts on education -some are specific to education in the USA, but many of are general interest: www.gse.harvard.edu/more-edcast
ARTICLES
Alexander, R. (2015). Towards Dialogic Teaching: rethinking classroom talk (4thedn). York: Dialogus.
Ardasheva Y., Wang Z., Adesope O.O. & Valentine J.C. (2017). Exploring Effectiveness and Moderators of Language Learning Strategy Instruction on Second Language and Self-Regulated Learning Outcomes. Review of Educational Research, 87(3), 544-582.
Benson, P. (2013). Learner autonomy.TESOL quarterly, 47(4), 839-843.
Macaro, E. (2008). The shifting dimensions of language learner autonomy. Learner and teacher autonomy: Concepts, realities and responses, 47-62.
Borg, S., & Alshumaimeri, Y. (2019). Language learner autonomy in a tertiary context: Teachers’ beliefs and practices.Language Teaching Research, 23(1), 9-38.
Cotterall, S. (2000). Promoting learner autonomy through the curriculum: Principles for designing language courses.ELT Journal, 54(2), 109-117.
Dignath C. & Büttner G. (2017). Insights into teachers’ promotion of SRL in primary and secondary mathematics classrooms. Paper presented at the biannual conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Tampere, 30/08/17
Glogger, I., Schwonke, R., Holzapfel, L., Nuckles, M. & Renkl, A. (2012). Learning Strategies Assessed by Journal Writing: Prediction of Learning Outcomes by Quantity, Quality, and Combinations of Learning Strategies. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104(2), 452-468.
Holec, H. (1979).Autonomy and foreign language learning.
Kistner S., Rakoczy K., Otto B., Dignath-van Ewijk C., Büttner G. & Klieme E. (2010). Promotion of self-regulated learning in classrooms: Investigating frequency, quality, and consequences for student performance. Metacognition and Learning, 5(2), 157-171
Michalsky, T. (2013). Integrating Skills and Wills Instruction in Self-Regulated Science Text Reading for Secondary Students. International Journal of Science Education, 35(11), 1846-1873
Mynard, J. (2019). Self-access learning and advising: Promoting language learner autonomy beyond the classroom. In Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning (pp. 185-209). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Reinders, H. (2010). Towards a classroom pedagogy for learner autonomy: A framework of independent language learning skills. Australian Journal of Teacher Education (Online),35(5), 40.2
Smith, R. (2008). Learner autonomy. ELT journal, 62(4), 395-397.
BOOKS
Little, D., Dam, L., & Legenhausen, L. (2017). Language learner autonomy: what, why and how.Second Language Acquisition.
Cappellini, M., Lewis, T., & Rivens Mompean, A. (2017).Learner autonomy and web 2.0. Equinox.
Schwienhorst, K. (2012).Learner autonomy and CALL environments. Routledge.
Lamb, T., & Reinders, H. (Eds.). (2008). Learner and teacher autonomy: Concepts, realities, and responses (Vol. 1). John Benjamins Publishing.
Scharle, A & Anita Szabó(2007) Learner autonomy: a guide to developing learner responsibility Cambridge University Press