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Promoting learner autonomy through the curriculum
1. Promoting learner autonomy
through the curriculum:
principles for designing
Language courses.
Sara Cotterall
2. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Ensino de Línguas Mediado por Computador
Disciplina: Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem
Professora Drª: Júnia Braga
Grupo Unidos Venceremos
Participantes: Daniela Valim, Dagmar Dutra,
Gilmar Leal e Isabella Gregório.
3. This article argues that fostering learner
autonomy is an important and appropriate
goal in language course design, but that
principles to guide the design of such
courses are currently lacking.
4. Many language teachers are convinced of the
importance of incorporating principles of learner
autonomy—'the ability to take charge of one's own
learning' (Holec 1981: 3)—into their practice.
This article argues that learner autonomy should not be
seen as a goal only for highly committed students
completing optional courses, or for students operating
within selected educational or cultural contexts. Rather,
it should be seen as an essential goal of all learning.
5. Littlewood (1999: 73) comments: If we
define autonomy in educational terms as
involving students' capacity to use their
learning independently of teachers, then
autonomy would appear to be an
incontrovertible goal for learners
everywhere, since it is obvious that no
students, anywhere, will have their
teachers to accompany them throughout
life.
6. Language courses which aim to promote
learner autonomy will incorporate means
of transferring responsibility for aspects of
the language learning process (such as
setting goals, selecting learning strategies,
and evaluating progress) from the teacher
to the learner.
7. The article proposes five course design
principles for language courses which
seek to foster learner autonomy.
Each principle is discussed in relation to
the experience of designing two skills-
based courses taught within an intensive
English language course.
8. The courses
The courses were designed for a group of 20
learners drawn from five classes of learners
enrolled on a 12-week intensive English language
course at Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand.
The learners attended class for three hours every
morning with their class teacher, and then
attended a course in an area of special interest (or
need) for two hours one afternoon each week for
five weeks in each half of the course.
9. Principle of Language course design:
the theory
The five principles which emerged from
the course design process relate to:
(1) learner goals
(2) the language learning process
(3) tasks
(4) learner strategies
(5) reflection on learning.
10. The challenge facing course designers who wish
to foster learners' ability to 'take charge of [their]
learning' (Holec 1981: 3) is to find ways of
supporting the transfer of responsibility for
decision-making about learning from teacher to
learner.
Each of the principles discussed here
contributes to that transfer of responsibility.
11. (1) Learner goals
Any course designed to promote learner
autonomy must set out to achieve the
goals which the learners deem important.
Decisions about language, texts, tasks,
and strategies to focus on during the
course are made in relation to the stated
goals of the learners.
12. (2) The language learning process
A basic understanding of the language learning
process is essential for anyone who wishes to
manage their own learning.
Learners can only be autonomous if they are aware
of a range of learning options, and understand the
consequences of choices they make.
Armed with a model of language learning, learners
are able to question the role of input texts and
tasks, to trial alternative strategies, and to seek
feedback on their performance.
Without access to such a model, learners are
forced into the role of 'consumers' of language
courses.
13. (3) Tasks
This principle is related to the first one. Learners
enroll in language courses in order to improve
their performance of certain L2 tasks.
Their goals and needs must therefore be
paramount in the design of any course which
seeks to develop their ability to manage their own
learning.
This means that the tasks in which the course
provides preparation, practice, and feedback
should be those in which the learner will
participate in the future.
Such 'transparency' of course content is the
hallmark of courses designed to foster learner
autonomy.
14. (4) Learner strategies
At the heart of learner autonomy lies the
concept of choice.
This principle relates particularly to
extending the choice of strategic
behaviors available to learners, and to
expanding their conceptual understanding
of the contribution which strategies can
make to their learning.
15. (5) Reflection on learning.
The potential for learner autonomy
increases as an individual's learning
awareness grows. Therefore activities
which prompt learners to reflect on their
learning aim to enhance learners' insight
into their learning processes.
16. Principle of Language course design:
the design
In the initial session, learners were asked to
specify detailed reading or speaking goals, to
identify appropriate resources, and to formulate
measures for determining when their goals had
been reached.
The peer interviews revealed that few learners
had experience of goal setting or of monitoring
or evaluating their learning, and that they were
unlikely to acquire this without extensive
supported practice.
17. Both courses integrated activities which required
learners to reflect on their learning, such as
discussion of the goal-setting process, analysis
of task types, and experimentation with
strategies to monitor progress and evaluate
personal learning.
Awareness-raising occurred both in the
discourse surrounding each task:
'Why are we doing this?
How will it help?
What makes it difficult?
And also in the feedback at the end of each
session.
18. Learners were asked to complete a journal
entry each week recording their answers
to questions such as:
1 What did you do today?
2 What did you learn today?
3 What are you going to do differently as a
result of today's class?
19. Learners submitted their journals at the
end of each session and had them
returned with teacher comments at the
start of the subsequent session. Sessions
frequently began with activities inspired by
issues raised in learner journals, such as
brainstorming solutions to problems
encountered in authentic communication
situations.
20. Conclusion:
More specifically, observations of learners
performing course tasks, learners'
comments in their journals, and the results
of a written evaluation, suggested that the
inclusion of tasks related to learners' goals
(Principles 1 and 3), resulted in an
unprecedented level of motivation.
21. Without reflection, learners cannot assess
their past learning or plans for future
action.
Therefore courses designed to promote
learner autonomy must encourage
learners to set personal goals, monitor
and reflect on their performance, and
modify their learning behaviour
accordingly.
22. These two courses aimed to provide a
supportive environment in which learners
were encouraged to take decisions about
their language learning. That environment
integrated goal-setting activities,
discussion of the language learning
process, modelling of strategies, task
practice, and reflection on experience.
23. In order to improve individual
performance, whether it is teaching or
learning, we need a sense of ownership,
and power, driven by an exploratory
attitude and working within a curricular
framework that is flexible and dynamic
enough to allow for individual explorations.
(Cotterall and Crabbe 1999: 141)