Week 11 autonomy

In the article Learner Autonomy and Tandem Learning, Schwienhorst talks about whether CALL development is techonolgy based of pedagogy based. He believes that both is involved in the CALL development and has focused on three different approches to learner autonomy. First he looked at the individual cognitive perspective, in which learners are always trying to improve their existing construct system, integration of new and already existing constructs can be difficult since the only person that can change their minds is themselves. They will always stick to what they believe in. The second perspective is called the social interactive. This view is based on Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal development approach, our learning, and social interactions builds up what we learn and what we believe in. It is linked to our enviornment and the people that we interact with. Social interaction is a tool for conscious awareness. The third approach is that learner autonomy can be viewed as an experimental participatory perspective. Theorists point out that learners should take control of their learning process. Vygotsky and Kelly both think that through experiments with tools and artefacts, learner's awareness can be raised. Ideas are encouraged to be written down so they can be reviewed over and over again to open up new possibilities.