Responsibility for learning

RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEARNING

• DEFINITION.
• Learner- centered teaching encourages students to reflect on what they are learning and how they are learning it.
• Teachers challenge students about learning and encourage them to accept responsibility for decisions they make about learning.
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LEARNER AUTONOMY

• DEFINITION.
• Learner autonomy refers to a student’s ability to set appropriate learning goals and take charge of his or her own learning. However, autonomous learners are dependent upon teachers to create and maintain learning environments that support the development of learner autonomy.
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Autonomous learning activities

• Students make their own dialogues after they have listened to a model on an audio track.
• Students can to look for the meanings of words and how they are used in their dictionaries rather than telling them what the words mean.
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MONOLINGUAL LEARNER'S DICTIONARIES

• This dictionary is designed especially for learners and it also helps to understand how and when use the words. At earliest stages of learning, good bilingual dictionaries have the same function and allow the students a large measure of independence from the teacher.
• Teachers will help students to be responsible for their learning if we show them where (either in books, in self-access centers or online) they can continue studying outside the classroom.
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SELF-ACCESS CENTER

• DEFINITION.
• Self-access language learning centres are study spaces where learners can practise and improve their language skills using different media, including audio, video/DVD and computer resources, and different materials.
• Self Access Center helps students to continue developing their language skills outside the classroom.
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REFERENCES

• Magolda, M.B.B., Creating Contexts for Learning and Self-Authorship. Vanderbilt University Press. (1999).
• Schunck, D. & Zimmerman, B.(eds), Self-Regulated Learning: From Teaching to Self-Reflective Practice, The Guilford Press, New York (1998).
• "Learner autonomy". Learn NC. Retrieved from: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/linguafolio/5574
• "Self-Access Language Learning Centres". Language services. Retrieved from: http://www.ub.edu/sl/en/fl/servei3.htm