LEARNERS AUTONOMY

Learners Autonomy to the Language Learning Process

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Learners Autonomy to the Language Learning Process

Autonomy, the ability to work without supervision, the ability to move (transfer) mastered skills in different situations, and the ability to depart from the template, beaten patterns of behaviour. It can, therefore, be defined as a partial transfer of control into the hands of the student learning and the responsibility for this process. The autonomy of the learner shapes the positive attitude towards the acquisition of knowledge and greatly facilitates the process of teaching, as tends to be independent learners in the process of learning. On the basis of these assumptions, following statement can be developed.

Learner's autonomy plays a significant role in learning of a language.

Learning is a great area of development of autonomy, because the language is a useful tool to describe the world in its various dimensions. As in any other subject, foreign language teacher has arbitrariness in the choice of subject. It is, therefore, care to meet the interests and needs of students who will be able to realize own ideas in the lessons, let them, from time to time, decide on the selection of topics lessons, and propose the manner and form of its implementation. The teacher promotes the autonomy accepts the fact that students differ from each other, and thus each of them at different levels and in different rate reaches a skill. What's more, the same person in different situations can achieve varying degrees of autonomy (Lamb, 2000, pp. 118-127). The aim of the learner is to break the intellectual passivity, changing attitudes of the learner to the learning process, stimulating creativity, willingness to take risks and to help awareness of students to the most preferred and effective ways of learning. This approach will enable the student learner not only exist in the classroom, but also to feel co-author of the lesson. Autonomous behaviour of students comes most easily defined needs language. Therefore, the full autonomy can speak for adult learners. In this paper, we will discuss the concept of learner's autonomy in detail, consider the benefits, evaluate previous studies and researches, and suggests ways to improve these processes.

We speak of autonomous learning, when students make the key decisions about their own learning. Decide themselves as autonomous learners:

What they want to learn.

How they go about learning.

What materials and what tools they use for learning.

What learning strategies they use.

Whether they learn alone or in a group.

How they divide their learning time.

How to check whether they have successfully learned.

The students themselves initiate their own learning, manage, organize and evaluate it. One limitation of autonomous learning is that we in the teaching of English in specific teaching goals - whether through curricula, textbooks or other defaults, are linked. This means that there is no conclusive randomness (McGrath, 2000, pp. 100-110). This close link between learner autonomy and learning strategies is learning to learn in the centre and offers suggestions for the training of learning strategies to build and expand the autonomy of ...