Week 2.

ICT Tools to Foster Metacognitive Awareness and the Learning Autonomy.

firstly, is necessary to know what autonomy or autonomous learning mean and what metacognitive awareness refers to. So that, I am going to give a short description about them. learner autonomy is the capacity of student to identify the academic deficiencies, and be able to find a way to overcome and improve these areas; In fact, this leads students to become autonomous because they begging to create their own learning goals and analyze their own progress. On the other hand, metacognitive awareness is referring to self-knowledge in other words, is the knowledge that learners have about their cognitive potential and limitations and other personal traits that affect school performance.

After explaining the above, we return to the topic. Infusing technology like CALL or ICT in the classroom may significantly contribute to the growth in learners’ motivation, autonomy and thinking skills. Teachers play an important role in developing learner’s autonomy through the creation of activities were students have the opportunity to reflect on what they have done and how they achieve their personal learning aim. Moreover, technology has been used for practice the different language skills such as, pronunciation, spelling, grammar and writing. Nonetheless, something that teachers have to keep in mind that some in some students the autonomy can be innate or be acquire in a self-taught way. Therefore; teachers have to create strategies making use of virtual fields to encourage critical thougth, the initiative and cooperative work.

To end, the aim of a teacher to create autonomous learners is to aid them to create good learning habits through different platforms using the technology resources or activities like assessments. Also, this aid students to acknowledge what are their perfect learning Ways.

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