Communication strategies for developing the learner’s autonomy

Conclusion

In the process of language learning both the teachers and the learners play important roles and have responsibilities to assume. To develop the learners’ communicative competence the teachers should expose them to and draw their attention to different communicative strategies. It is the teachers’ responsibility: to adapt activities so that the learners experience success, to simplify the language, in order to facilitate the learner’s acquisition and understanding, to use open-ended questions so that the learners can give alternative and flexible answers. The link between learning strategies and learner autonomy is very close. Autonomy means volition, and it offers opportunities for free choices on the part of the learners. Learning a new language takes time... make it pleasant and useful.

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