LEARNING AUTONOMY AND THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILL: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Autonomy learning is essential in this modern era as it would beneficial both for teachers and learners. The research paper aims to discover what learning autonomy is, the advantages, the barriers and the challenges of applying learning autonomy in language learning. The participants of the reviewed studies were mostly treated English as a foreign language or EFL and at higher level of education. It is found that the autonomy learning has such correlation toward motivation, self-efficacy, anxiety and proficiency in language acquisition; and had significant result after employing learner-centered base activities. Moreover, it is found that the way learners engage autonomy learning outside the classroom through internet and etc. However, there are spots that needed consideration, support and commitment from institutions, teachers and parents and society in order to make the autonomous learning be realized as it is argued that autonomous learning could not be able to foster by itself. Finally, the recommendations and suggestions were deployed for further research.