LEARNER AUTONOMY

This paper is going to be centred on how learners' autonomy can be fostered. In the literature part of this paper it is stated that the development autonomous learning plays a crucial role in learning process. Autonomy is about how people control their own lives, so when teaching/learning process is taken for granted, teachers create an environment that the students feel themselves autonomous. So autonomy is analyzed both from the teachers' and students' perspective. It analyzes whether the students are independent or not throughout the learning process. The scope of the research is to analyze the teachers' perspectives towards learner autonomy during the class activities. For that purpose the literature part of that research paper is based on teachers' perspective towards their learners' autonomy. The empirical research is conducted on one of main private university in Istanbul. Convenient quota sampling has been used. 37 English Language Teachers covering a wide-range of departments participated in the research. The questionnaire is in Likert Scale form from strongly agree to strongly disagree and a space is provided on the questionnaire in order to analyze participants' opinions. Additionally correlation analyses and mean results are found, the results of the questionnaires are correlated with the findings of the literature review. The participants are given a questionnaire that analyzes how teachers assess their learners in terms of they are autonomous or not. The findings reveal that teachers have a significant effect on autonomous learning is general.