Assessment as Learner Autonomy

Language learner autonomy has consequences that reach far beyond the language classroom. Autonomy is about developing as a language learner, but in ways which benefit the life of the learner over and above language proficiency. In the words of Little (1991, p. 8), learner autonomy is about ‘the desire to remove the barriers between learning and living’. This view sees language learner autonomy to be about the development of the individual as much as it is about the development of the language of the learner. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.