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Date Posted: 08:45:41 01/28/04 Wed
Author: Thiago
Subject: Week XIV

Reflect about your own autonomy and write a text telling us if you consider yourself an autonomous person. Include some quotations from the text you read. How would you classify your degree of autonomy?

I�ve always thought of autonomy as the capacity to do something individually. However, as I could see from the reading of Nunan�s article, autonomy is even more complex. The author defines autonomy as �the capacity to control one�s own learning in terms of management, cognition and content�. As we can see, autonomy seems to be more related to control than individuality. I used to believe that I was totally autonomous in my learning of English, since I used to study alone at home without any teacher�s supervision or guidance. However, I�d never thought about my real goals in language learning. Since I got into the university I�ve acquired some more autonomy in the sense that I�ve had the opportunity to manage what I wanted or not to learn and the way I�d rather learn it. Besides, the opportunity I�ve had to choose what subjects to take has contributed to a faster development of autonomy to decide about my learning process.
Nunan (2000) numbers five main levels in the construction of learners� autonomy (awareness, involvement, intervention, creation and transcendence level). I believe I�m in an in-between the creation and transcendence level, because although being a teacher, I still have to create and practice some new language tasks and exercises in order to improve my own English according to my goals.

Source:
Nunan, David. �Autonomy in language learning�. Plenary presentation, ASOCOPI 2000, Cartagena, Colombia, October 2000.http//www.nunan.info/presentations/autonomy_lang_learn.pdf (Researched on January 27, 2004)

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