Developing Learner Autonomy in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Social-interactive View of Learning and Three Fundamental Pedagogical Principles

Abstract

The first part of this article explores the concept of learner autonomy from the perspective of a social-interactive view of learning. The second part elaborates three fundamental pedagogical principles derived from this view and calculated to develop learner autonomy: the principle of learner empowerment; the principle of appropriate target language use; and the principle of using language as a cognitive tool.