1. Technology and Learner Autonomy – A Reflection Paper Vukile D. Mgijima

2. An Autonomous Learner – sets their own goals and – takes responsibility for their own learning, – takes/accepts the initiative to interact with others to gain more insight about their learning, and – regularly reflects and reviews their own progress. the one to whom learning is seen as the result of his own self-initiated interaction with the world (Thanasoulas, 2000).

3. Teacher’s Role Create and/or maintain a conducive learning environment in which learners can learn to be autonomous - make ‘the technology’ available/accessible. Guide learners – re how to Provide relevant material – eg tut. Ex/tst on WiSeUp Intervene for further assistance Check, & update regularly

4. Tech & Learner Autonomy enhances learner motivation (Sullivan & Pratt, 1996). allows learners to seek out extra educational resources on their own and at their own pace. Ls - use online reference tools such as online dictionaries, grammar and style checkers, and concordances for corpus analysis.

5. faster learners are able to ‘learn’ ahead. – Learn to organise their time & use it economomically and advantageously. Through tech, each learner is able to monitor their progress through immediate and individualized feedback on language practice exercises, chapter tests, and score reports(Chapelle & Jameson, 2008).

6. In a nutshell ed tech - such as the Internet and computer software - enhances learner motivation in that it performs functions similar to and, in some instances, even better than what many teachers do in class through textbooks; and makes it easier for teachers to help learners become autonomous

7. I welcome your questions. I’m Vukile Mgijima