Talking Shop: aspects of autonomous learning

In this interview Leslie Dickinson talks about the qualities and characteristics of autonomous learners, the influences on his own thinking about autonomy and the related concept of learner-training, his current research, and his particular interest in self-assessment.

Taken from ELT Journal Volume 47/4 (October 1993).

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You might be interested to know that the search function on version 2 of the CD-ROM shows that 39 out of the 699 documents included contain the phrase "learner training". These include:

What do we need teaching materials for by R.L. Allwright (36/1 October 1981)

Teacher roles in the learner centred classroom by Ian Tudor (47/1 January 1993)
Helping language learners think about learning by Anita Wenden (40/1 January 1986)