This paper seeks to explore these challenges and demonstrate how this process of `autonomization' can be achieved through open distance English Language teaching materials by looking at the development of the mandatory English Language papers at Wawasan Open University. It describes the ways in which course writers in the English Language courses for adult open distance learners have turned their experience and expertise into practice in order to help students develop the capacity for managing their own learning which is essential for becoming autonomous learners. The paper also considers the ways of further enhancing `autonomization’ and the implications it will hold for future English Language course writers and research.
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Paper presented at the Third International Language Learning Conference (2008; Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang)
Autonomy and the open distance English language learner
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