Assessing Students' Readiness in Learner Autonomy: A study in an English Education Department

摘要

Learner's readiness towards LA is prominent to be researched on, because readiness of a learner has a profound influence on their learning behavior, without it the deployment of strategies may be less effective. The purpose of the study is to analyze learner's readiness in LA by assessing their past English learning experience, their belief towards teacher role and their learning preference. The research used descriptive qualitative method with questionnaire as its primary tool and it was filled by 39 English Education Department students. The research found out that the students were quite ready in accepting LA in the terms of their past English learning experience, the teacher's role belief and their learning preference while they still have doubts about the teacher's role in teaching them LA. It is recommended that the teacher to implement the result to foster LA to the students, and for future researcher to analyze more variables.