Presentación acerca de aprendizaje autónomo en inglés, para el curso TICS para enseñar y aprender.

1. AUTONOMOUS
LEARNING
Erika Julieth Díaz Ángel

2. SOME IMPORTANT POINTS
• Definition and misconceptions
• Implications to the learning process

3. MISCONCEPTIONS
• AUTONOMY IS NOT
• Working without supervision process
• Feeling free to do anything
• Just teaching strategies
• Just outside the classroom
• Individualism

4. SOME DEFINITIONS
Bergen Definition
«Learning autonomy is characterized by a readiness to take charge of one’s
own learning in the service of one’s needs and purposes»
Holec
«The ability to take charge of one’s own learning»
• Determining the objectives
• Defining contents and progressions
• Selecting methods and techniques
• Monitoring procedure of acquisition
• Evaluating what has been acquired

5. ASPECTS OF LEARNER AUTONOMY
• Construct of capacity
• Responsibility of the learning process
• Degrees of autonomy: unstable and variable
• Awareness of the learning process
• Constant reflection
• Decision making
• Social and individual dimension
Taken from: Sinclair, B., Mcgrath, I. and Lamb, T.(eds)(2000). Learner Autonomy
Teacher Autonomy: Future Directions. Essex: Longman - British Council.

7. IMPLICATIONS IN THE LEARNING PROCESS
Enable control over:
• Discipline
• Metacognitive techniques (Technical autonomy)
• Responsibility with the learning process (Psychological autonomy)
• The learning process and contents (Political autonomy)

9. LEARNER RESULT