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Multiple Intelligences theory: ICT and Pronunciation So what’s new?. Learner Autonomy. What does Learner Autonomy mean to you?. What do Learners need to become Autonomous?. A brief history of Autonomy. First begins to appear in language learning literature in the 1970’s. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Multiple Intelligences theory: ICT and PronunciationSo what’s new?
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Learner AutonomyWhat does Learner Autonomy mean to you?
What do Learners need to become Autonomous?
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A brief history of Autonomy
First begins to appear in language learning literature in the 1970’s
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Has origins in “distance learning” and a series of texts about traditional education
Seminal texts “Autonomy and Foreign Language Learning” - Holec 1979
“Learner Autonomy: Definitions, Issues and Problems”- Little 1991
Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Freire, 1970Teaching as a Subversive Activity – Postman, Weingartner, 1971
Deschooling Society – Illich, 1973From Communication to Curriculum – Barnes, 1975
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A brief history of Autonomy
It is a key concept within the Council of Europe’s CEFR(Common European Framework of Reference for Languages )
The Language learning for European citizenship project produced the drafts for the CEFR and the European Language Portfolio
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Learner Autonomy1. Autonomy is self-instruction i.e. no need for a teacher.
2. Autonomy is the ability to take charge of one’s learning.
3. Autonomy is destroyed by teacher control.
4. Learner Autonomy is a methodology we can plan into our classes.
5. Autonomy is a capacity for critical reflection and independent action.
6. Autonomy is easy to define and quantify
7. Once Autonomy is obtained in language learning, it can easily be applied to any other area.
2 and 5 are our working definitions coming from Holec and Little
1,3,4,6 and 7 are common misconceptions as described by Little
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Prerequisites for Learner Autonomy
Agency
From the first slide our second question was:
What do our leaners require to become more autonomous?
Motivation - interest / commitment
“Know-how” - guidance / ability
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Agency
Agency refers to the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices within a social setting.
agency n….refers to the capacity for human beings to make meaningful choices and take responsibility for their decisions and actions…
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Agency in language learning
– What does it require?
social setting
Individuals choice and responsibility
...agency is always a social event that does not take place in a void or in an empty wilderness.
Agency in the classroomvan Lier, L. 2008
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Agency
Agency cannot exist in a vacuum.
We as teachers must provided our students with a space which promotes their budding agency within the field of language learning.
This is the first step on the long road to learner autonomy.
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Agency and autonomyAnother question
1. How would you now explain the relationship between agency and autonomy?
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The agency autonomy dynamic
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There´s no one word for intelligence in Irish
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Enter Multiple Intelligences theory (MI)“An intelligence is the ability to solve problems, or to create products, that are valued within one or more cultural settings.”
Gardner H. introduction to Frames of Mind: Theory of multiple intelligences. Basic Press, 1993.
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Our learners are snowflakes.
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Social settings you say?
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Learning style, thinking style and MI
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The answers
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Learners and their unique MI profile
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MI as the learners Prerogative
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Put MI in their hands!
You won’t regret it!
