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CompetitivenessandInnovationFrameworkProgramme (CIP
Projectno.:62112
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
AutonomousEnglishlearning
ElenaMartnMonje
UNED
emartin@flog.uned.es
@emartinmonje
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
Table ofcontents
What is autonomous learning?
Characteristics ofan autonomous language learner
Steps into autonomous learning
Learning style preferences &learning strategies
Learning strategies
Cognitive strategies
Metacognitive strategies
Some stategies for learning English autonomously
References
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
Teacher
decreases
importance as
main source of
knowledge
Students
capacity to learn
for themselves
encouraged
Students
encouraged to
develop their
own learning
strategies
Students
awareness of
their own
learning styles
encouraged
Students
encouraged to
make decisions
about what they
learn
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
Visual
Auditory
Repeat info
Study with a
partner
Listento music
(nolyrics)
Talk to yourself
Tapeyourself
Kinaesthetic
Personalise info
Breakreading tasks into small chunks
Stopafter each chunk
Usefingers to keep track ofwhere you are
Useyour hands explaining concepts to yourself
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
Learning strategies
Mentalstepsoroperationsthatlearnersusetolearna
newlanguageandtoregulatetheireffortstodoso
(Wenden,1998:18)
Someofthemainlearningstrategiesare(Thanasoulas,
2000):
Cognitive strategies
Metacognitive strategies
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
COGNITIVE STRATEGIES(Thanasoulas,2000)
Repetition,imitating othersspeech
Resourcing (using dictionaries &other materials)
Translation
Notetaking
Deduction
Contextualisation
Transfer(Knowledge inL1applied to L2)
Asking for clarification
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES(Thanasoulas,2000)
Directed attention:Deciding inadvance to concentrate on
general aspects ofatask
Selective attention:Paying attention to specific aspects ofa
task
Selfmonitoring: Checking ones performanceasone
speaks
Selfevaluation:Appraising ones performanceinrelation
to ones own standards
Selfreinforcement:Rewarding oneself for success
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
References
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
References
Elearning,CommunicationandOpendata:
MassiveMobile,UbiquitousandOpenLearning
THANKYOU!
ElenaMartnMonje
UNED
emartin@flog.uned.es
@emartinmonje