This document discusses the characteristics of an autonomous learner. It defines learning as a change in a person's abilities or knowledge due to interacting with their environment. Development refers to growth and change. As adults engage in various learning activities to solve daily problems, they accumulate experiences and prefer activities centered around performance and competency. The adult learning process involves determining needs, creating a strategy, implementing it, and evaluating outcomes. Autonomy involves taking increasing control over one's knowledge, skills, and ability to make decisions through positive motivation and a sense of self. An autonomous learner is responsible, concerned with their own learning, independent yet collaborative, able to make decisions and achieve goals through perseverance and self-esteem.

1. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
LIC ABIERTA EN ENSEÑANZA DE INGLES
MODULO INTRODUCTORIO
Tema: Why do I feel I can be an autonomous learner
Alumna: Karla Porras Espinoza
Profesora: Elba Méndez

2. INTRODUCTION

3. What is learning?
Is the act or process by which behavioral, knowledge, skills, and
attitudes are acquired
Is a change in human disposition or capability, which can be
retained and which is not simply ascribable to the process of
growth.
A change in the individual due to the interaction with the
environment

4. What is development?
Means change and growth
Teacher development is the process of becoming “the best kind of
teacher that I personally can I be” (Underhill 1998)

5. How is an adult learner?
• Adults engage in a wide variety of learning activities and response to their
daily needs and problems
• All adults are capable of learning
• Time and change
• Motivation and stimulation
• Self- esteem and self- concept

6. Assumptions about adult learnes
Move from dependency towards increasing selfdirectedness
Accumulating experiences that increase rich resources
for learning
Motivation to learn tasks and real problems
Adults are concerned about developing increased
competence
Adults prefer to participate in performance- centred
learning activities

7. Adult learner process
2 Create
1 Needs
Determining
the individual needs
to learn so as to
achive their goals
3 Evaluate
Assessing the
attainment of the
learning goal and
the process of
reaching it
Created a strategy
and the resources
to achive the
learning goal
Adult
learning
The process of adult
gaining knowladge
and experience based
on their personal
goals
4 Implement
Learning
stategy and utilizing
the learning
resources

8. Autonomy
Is about attitude motivation and circumstances
It would emphasize progressions in terms of
increasing control over
Knowledge
Skills
Ability to make decisions

9. What is to be autonomous?
Positive motivation
An internal quality of individual
A quality wich can develop
Sense in a sense of self
Encourage, needs, support and cooperation
Take charge of own learning
Responsible and concerned

10. Autonomous Lerner Caracteristics

12. In conclution
I am responsible and concerned of my own learning
I am independent but I also can work collaboratively
I can take decisions and risks
I feel self- directed and self- aware
I realize that I can achieve my goals and how can I achieve it
“perseverance and self-esteem are essential qualities of an
autonomous learner”

13. REFERENCES
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Holton E, Knowles M & Swatson R (2005) The Adult
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Malcolm S. Knowles, Elwood F. Holton III, Richard A.
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