What insights can we gain from educational thinking on autonomous learning?
Another idea about learner autonomy in ELT circles has been educational thinking, where the concept of self-determination has been the focus of debate for many years. "Self-determination" suggests that the individual L can reflect, make choices, and arrive at personally constructed decisions. Barrow and Woods describe it as involving the ·notion of thinking in the sense of reflecting, calculating, memorizing, predicting,...
Characteris SELF-DIRECTED L:
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