Promoting Learner Autonomy

            Regarding to the term of autonomy, there arise other tearms related. Self –instruction means that the students are able to do something without the teachers’ direction. Self-direction is the learners’ initiative to decide what is good for them. Self-access learning is using other media for learning such as technology and other material. Individualized instruction is a common environment regarding to the learners’ characteristics.

            Those terms bear some classifications based on the objectives. The first is narrow view of learning autonomy which means learning to learn. Academic achievement is emphasized as the concern of this point. Planning, monitoring, problem-solving, and evaluation are the four processes in this part. Also, the learners should be engaged with their own learning styles and strategies in order to be autonomous. The second is learning to liberate. In this part, the learners are encourages not only to be autonomous but also critical. Therefore, it is emphasized through their potential. Selecting the appropriate teachniques should be done such as asking them to make a daily or weekly journal, promoting interactions, triggering their citical thinking, etc. There are some stages that should be paid attention. The first stage of the beginning for being autonomous is the awareness. It means that they must recognize the importance of autonomy. Then, they can make their own choice. The last it that they decide their purpose, assigment, and other madia.

There are two microstrategies to encourage the learners to be autonomous. The first is specificied to where they want to belong. The second is the learning strategy. This is more detail and the learners knowing the style that they want to apply.thus, it is similat to the provious summary, the teacher’s ability to handle the classrom is needed.

A Commonly Found Question

Question	:	How do we change the scepticism of promoting LA for the learners with low motivation?
Answer	:	The teachers are suggested to raise the students’ awareness towards the importance of LA throught informing, distributing, discussing about what the teacher plans to do. Also, by communication with the students and their parents, the teacher will discuss the LA concept. The teacher can use alternative methods and compromise it. In the beginning, the teacher are suggested to use simple way such as can do checklist and give more challenging task after that.

Critical Analysis

Promoting the learners to be autonomous is not done through asking them to learn by them selves. There many points that should be considered. The teacher should be able to motivate them and direct them to be independent. Awareness should be emphasized first as it is stated in the first degree. However, I think that this term can appropriately be implemented in urban areas not rural areas. In rural areas, the teacher is the only source of information and knowledge for them. On the contrary, learners in urban areas already made use technologies and many media are provided. Therefore, the promoting of learner autonomy can be little bit difficult. It somehow can be implemented in different way such as triggering them to be citacal thinking.

References

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Kumaravadivelu. 2003. Beyond Method: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching. New Haven and London: Yale University Press