CALL, LEARNER AUTONOMY & TEACHERS' ROLE IN LEARNING ENGLISH

[Mustafizur rRhman]

CALL is clearly a good place to facilitate the development of learner autonomy which may be due to a number of factors.  The most important factor is that learners are in control of their role in the CALL discussions which automatically implies that are in control of decision-making, planning and self-regulation.  With CALL, individual learners are given the opportunity to “move out of their individual comfort zones in order to participate productively and effectively in the learning process” (Hoven, 1999, p.157).

In a word, CALL has a positive effect on learner autonomy if the students perceive the tool to be a useful one. Therefore, I argue that the teacher's role in CALL needs to be more potent than has been acknowledged so far.