Abstract
Students are usually very dependent on their teacher; and they rarely vary from the curriculum. Students are academic ‘passengers’ rather than ‘drivers’ of the learning process. Encouraging student autonomy, as in “flying solo,” will prepare them to become far more effective language users which is an ELT primary objective; after all, they won’t always have a teacher there to guide them! In this session, participants will discuss, derive, and develop methods to make students less dependent on teachers and more independent, responsible for their own development. Workshop goals are: engage participants in a discussion of student autonomy, discuss techniques and activities for developing student autonomy, raise student awareness of the importance of developing conversational autonomy. The presenter will guide participants through multiple activities to obtain desired learning outcomes. To guide participants explorations, a critical learning segment will be: ‘What is learner autonomy?’ activity. Being a part of ‘How to develop learner autonomy’ activity teachers will discuss activities that help them develop autonomy in their students. In addition, the presenter will share the student autonomy experience at her home university. Here, participants will work with structured case studies and discuss ways of developing and maintaining autonomy. By the end of the workshop, participants will have developed sufficient conversational autonomy to continue development learning outside the classroom. Developing autonomy is an incremental process but the participants will have the necessary tools and understanding for continuing improvement.
Presenters
Durdona KarimovaLecturer/Head Teacher of Applied Linguistics, Multidisciplionary Studies, Specialized Branch of Tashkent State University of Law, Toshkent, Uzbekistan
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Communications and Linguistic Studies
KEYWORDS
Learner autonomy Independent study skills Awareness Conversational autonomy
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