Abstract
This Paper investigates the relation between studying in Self-Access centres and learners’ confidence, motivation and autonomous learning. The study based on three questions: (a) To what extent autonomous learning motivates students/users of SAC? (b) Is the use of SAC reinforcing students’ confidence? (c) To what extent using SAC help in developing the students; learning skills? A questionnaire conducted to show learners; attitudes towards using SAC. The data was statistically analysed. The most important result revealed that the learners felt more confident and motivated after using SAC. Besides, there were a noticeable change in their language understanding and remarkable improvement in their language skills.
Highlights
The trend of developing learners’ autonomy is getting wider
This Paper investigates the relation between studying in Self-Access centres and learners’ confidence, motivation and autonomous learning
The study based on three questions: (a) To what extent autonomous learning motivates students/users of Self-Access Centre (SAC)? (b) Is the use of SAC reinforcing students’ confidence? (c) To what extent using SAC help in developing the students; learning skills? A questionnaire conducted to show learners; attitudes towards using SAC
Summary
The trend of developing learners’ autonomy is getting wider. The huge leap in information technology that interfere generally everywhere and the use of English as a global language needs to be develop to meet this digital age requirement. In tertiary education the use of technology spread out and most of universities all over the world and in the Arab world try to get quality. The use of technology makes it essential to change methods of teaching to cope with this development. In teaching English a lot of methods were created due to the revolution of information technology. The most important one is the autonomous learning.
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