Week 7 - Learner Autonomy

This week, I read some articles about learner autonomy and took part in some discussions in the class forum. I was attracted by some ideas, such as the idea that autonomous learning is not an aim it is rather a means ( a process not a product). In other words, we train the students to do this not to be independent from the teacher so the teacher does less work, we rather want them to do this because we want them to learn in a better way.
I am also interested in the idea that it is important to well introduce the idea of autonomous learning especially in classes with conventional educational back ground. Most probably , Ss reject this idea and think that the teacher is not teaching enough and leaving them to get lost with each other.

This takes me to the fact that autonomous learning does not mean neglecting the teacher's role. The teacher should be there, guiding, advising and facilitating. Finally, autonomous learning is the skill of how the teacher takes control of the class while the Ss are responsible for their learning at the same time.