Helping Stduents to Learn:

A guide to learner Autonomy

 To introduce myself

To know my students´ names and their

expectations about the course.
OBJECTIVES To reflect upon issues concerning
autonomous learners

To talk about teacher´s and learner´s

attitudes towards Autonomy

To learn how to raise awareness about

language learning
OBJECTIVES

Socialiaze coffee time:

6: 30 – 6:50
9:30 – 9:50
 Students´centered
Methodology
and
Assessment Group disscussions

Reflections
Assessment

Class participation

Essay/ Put into practice…

March 20th

A methafore

March 20th
 Let´s think

Why do we want
What is learner our students to
autonomy? be more
automous?
 Changing Changing attitudes (Friday, February 26th)

Content

Raising Raising Awarness (Saturday, February 27th)

Learner
autonomy
 Think of a skill you have learned like
riding a bicycle, learning to drive, or
how to cook. Can you remember
how you learned to do it?

TASK Tick as many answers as you like in

the list below:

C:\Users\MA. ANGELICA\Documents
\Unicolombo
- 2021\LEARNER AUTONOMY\Self
-Reflection.pdf
 Think of something that you
tried to learn but failed e.g.,
wind surfing, learning aonother
Compare and language…

Conclusions
What points of the list would
you tick? Are they the same?
 We can only
learn if…
1. We want to learn
2. We take an active role in our
learning
3. What this mean for language
classrooms?
 1 2 3
Teacher´s Want to learn Take Take an active
role implies responsability for
themselves as
role in their own
learning
learners
 Decision making

Work on their own

How…? Correct themselves and each other

Make them feel their views are

considered

Sharing responsbility
 Suggested Choices
My students Never Often
Choose material
Choose who to work with
Decide wether or not to use a dictionary
Evaluate their own progres
Choose topics for Project work
Decide what to do for homework
Talk about their interest in class
Any other?
What are the Problem

challenges of
My students are not mature I´m afraid of losing control
enough.

developing
My students are not motivated I´m following a set syllabus so
there is no opportunity

learner
My students are very Other ?
dependent on me.

autonomy?
My students do not understand
how language works

My students know very Little

English
Changing attitudes
Teacher´s attitudes
The primary task of the teacher
is to permit the students to
learn
Carl Rogers
 The teacher should decide what happens in the lesson
The teacher is in class to facilitate the student´s learning.

It is important that the teacher stays in control of the lesson

It is important that the teacher stays in control of the lesson

Teacher´s Students are in class to listen to the teacher and learn from her /him
role
The teacher needs to créate an enviroment in which students can learn if
they are ready to
Students only learn when they are actively involved in the lesson

The teacher shoul know the best way for the students to learn
 Start your planning
Work out what you
by thinking about
need to do to help
what the students
make this happen
Implications are going to do.

for lesson
planning You can make a
plan using 2
columns as follows:
General aim: Students wba to use comparative forms adajectives to
talk about people, animals and countries

Student activity Teacher aactivity

Ss practice making comparisons using both more / les Organise class into groups
and –er forms freely, working in groups Tell Ss what the task is
Get one or two examples of correct answers from
students
Provide material
Go around class
 Giving choices
• Where to sit in classroom
• Who to work with during the lesson
• Who is going to answer for each
Introcuing group
• Which language learning activities
Autonomy to try outside the classroom
• Which story to read next
• What type of homework they would
like
• What to include in a test
 Student´s attitudes
Changing attitudes

Respect people and they Will

respect you.

Lao Tse
 Children are natural
learners

Sometimes
children love
Why?
for learning is
lost
 How can we help them to
get their love again?

Help them to
Reward Respect understand how
they learn best

Confidence Self- steem

 1. Camilo´s :
• Put your Students in Teacher´s
shoes

Teacher´s
Reflections: 2. Fredy´s Group:
• Swith Ss thinnking
• Mistakes are part of their
learning process.
 1. Vanessa´s Group:

Guide Ss to have a better learning

process by making them aware of
Teacher´s their learning style.

Reflections: 2. Zuleidy´s Group:

Let Ss discover Englis language as
sth meaningful for them e.g., Talk
about topics they like.
 Linas´s group

S: Social

Teacher´s
Reflections: E: Emotional

L: Learning

Let Ss discover I´m GOOD at_________

 Student´s assumptions
about learning

There is a right way to learn, and the teacher knwos it

You only learn because you are forced to.

Students cannot evaluate their own learning.

There are connections between different subjects.

Some people only a few havea gift for languages.

You learn only with help from a teacher.

Nothing you do at school matters anyway.

 Developing a positive
attitude in our students

Getting students to be active

Believe in your students

Give students time

Raising
awareness
About learning
 • Activists

Approaches • Theorist
• Reflectors

to learning • Pragmatists
 More about learning

Let´s
Memory excercise
it
About the learner
About language
 Explain letter´s sounds

Make Ss Drawings on how to the toungue

aware of
language There are different pronuntionations
as well as words
Tell Ss English language Pronuntiation
is like Spanish (Chile, Colombia ,
etc…)