Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation

The global language teaching community has largely spotlighted students’ autonomous learning for the last few decades. Through the thorough review of the existing literature on learner autonomy, this article aims to theoretically investigate this concept as well as clearly specify the roles played...

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Main Author: Dung Nguyen Tri Tran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: VJE 2020-09-01
Series:Vietnam Journal of Education
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Online Access:https://vje.vn/index.php/journal/article/view/17
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description The global language teaching community has largely spotlighted students’ autonomous learning for the last few decades. Through the thorough review of the existing literature on learner autonomy, this article aims to theoretically investigate this concept as well as clearly specify the roles played by teachers and students in an autonomy-oriented classroom. Autonomous learning is not at all synonymous with the absolute elimination of teacher’s role and learner-learner relationships. In fact, language instructors need to comprehend their roles in a multidimensional way, and students are supposed to be responsibly active for their own learning process as well as positively interdependent for academic cooperation.
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spelling doaj.art-38eef9f7040c48b794d7483f07ebe8992024-04-12T04:06:07ZengVJEVietnam Journal of Education2588-14772815-55722020-09-0142Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigationDung Nguyen Tri Tran0Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam The global language teaching community has largely spotlighted students’ autonomous learning for the last few decades. Through the thorough review of the existing literature on learner autonomy, this article aims to theoretically investigate this concept as well as clearly specify the roles played by teachers and students in an autonomy-oriented classroom. Autonomous learning is not at all synonymous with the absolute elimination of teacher’s role and learner-learner relationships. In fact, language instructors need to comprehend their roles in a multidimensional way, and students are supposed to be responsibly active for their own learning process as well as positively interdependent for academic cooperation. https://vje.vn/index.php/journal/article/view/17Autonomous learninglearner’s rolesteacher’s roles
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Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation
Vietnam Journal of Education
Autonomous learning
learner’s roles
teacher’s roles
title Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation
title_full Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation
title_fullStr Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation
title_full_unstemmed Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation
title_short Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation
title_sort teacher s and learner s roles in autonomy oriented foreign language teaching a theoretical investigation
topic Autonomous learning
learner’s roles
teacher’s roles
url https://vje.vn/index.php/journal/article/view/17
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