Blogs as a support for learner autonomy through responsibility, personalization, and reflection¶

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Description¶

Drawing on Benson's (2007) definition of learner autonomy as "the ability of learners to take charge of their own learning" and Little's (1991) account, the article presents blogs as promoting autonomy in four areas: encouraging decision making (students may post, write, delete, add or change in their own blog), giving students responsibility over one aspect of learning and its documents, enabling transfer and personalization of formally learned language, and offering opportunities to reflect on their language use and learning process. The study focuses on the responsibility area, making students responsible for their reading skill.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Learners must access and use the blog voluntarily and independently rather than under continuous teacher direction

Constraints¶

The article notes it will be difficult to leave learners alone, so blogs are proposed as the way to achieve independence

Target Learners¶

university EFL students

Learning Goals¶

learner autonomy
independent reading

Claims¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Said Fathy El Said Abdul Fattah. (2016). The Effectiveness of Using Blogs as an Independent Learning Tool to Develop Reading Skills for University Students. Journal of Education and Practice, Vol.7, No.32. http://www.iiste.org

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`title`	`Blogs as a support for learner autonomy through responsibility, personalization, and reflection`
`description`	`Drawing on Benson's (2007) definition of learner autonomy as "the ability of learners to take charge of their own learning" and Little's (1991) account, the article presents blogs as promoting autonomy in four areas:...`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-11-02`
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