Learner Autonomy and Tandem learning: Putting Principles Into Practice in Synchronous and Asynchronous Telecommunications Environments

This paper has described three different approaches to learner autonomy which are: an individual cognitive, a social-interactive, and an experimental-participatory perspective. It also shows us examples of how various combinations of technology and pedagogy can lead to different degrees of implementations of learner autonomy principles.The idea and the implementation of tandem learning are very new and impressive to me. L1 and L2 learners were combined together to a tandem pair. It encouraged the learners to be responsible for their own and their partner’s learning. I think it is a very good idea to combine L1 and L2 learners together. However, it is crucial for us to teach learners to take up their own responsibilities in learning. When implementing this kind of technological language learning, school or panel heads and subject teachers should try to integrate it into the syllabus or part of the curriculum. Then teachers can do this kind of learning with students in class and this enables teachers to monitor closely to the progress of students.