Publication details

Shifting the Balance: The importance of autonomy and self-reflection in ESP

Authors

CHOVANCOVÁ Barbora BILOVÁ Štěpánka

Year of publication 2017
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Language Centre

Citation
Description Modern trends in language teaching emphasise the need to develop skills that enable students to become self-sufficient in their future life with a foreign language. We describe two different learning situations in which learner autonomy is promoted; the first being an elective ESP course for students across university entitled "English Autonomously", the second, a standard ESP course for Law Faculty undergraduates. While the former is primarily about student self-reflection and setting one’s own learning goals, our experience shows that it is also possible to introduce elements of autonomy into the latter, more structured course.

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