Training teachers to use the European Language Portfolio Project C6 of the ecml 2nd medium-term programme (elp tt)

Autonomy in formal language learning

• Three pedagogical principles:
• Learner involvement: engaging learners to share responsibility for the learning process (the affective dimension)
• Learner reflection: helping learners to think critically when they plan, monitor and evaluate their learning (the metacognitive dimension)
• Appropriate target language use: autonomy in language learning and autonomy in language use are two sides of the same coin (the communicative dimension)

Note that these three principles are not hierarchically related: each implies the other two

Learner involvement

(affective)

Learner reflection

(metacognitive)

Target language use

(communicative)