Listen to Students’ Stories: Promoting Learner Autonomy through Out-of-Class Listening Activities

  • Fumiko Murase
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Abstract

Promoting learner autonomy is widely accepted as a favorable educational goal (Aoki & Smith, 1999; Little, 1999). To achieve that goal, teachers in many different contexts have been making great efforts to apply the theories of learner autonomy to their own contexts of language teaching. As an example of one such initiative, this chapter reports on a program of learner training for promoting learner autonomy, which I conducted in the classes I taught at a Japanese university, and describes what my students experienced in the program and what I learned from this. Following a brief overview of the program, the following issues will be explored:

  • How did the students feel about each step of the program?

  • Did they experience any problems or difficulties?

  • If so, did they manage to overcome such problems? And how?

  • How could the teachers help their students overcome problems in developing their autonomy?

Keywords

Language Learning Listening Activity English Learning Study Goal Placement Test 
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