Emmanuelle Carette explains what self-directed learning is.
So it’s a special form of learning, a form of language learning, in which you learn a language and learn to learn a language at the same time. This is done with the help of an advisor, an expert called a counsellor, and within an overall framework that includes what is also known as a resource centre. In other words, learners need to be able to work with resources, meet native speakers, for example, and have a catalogue, a fairly extensive choice, but one in which they are not lost or alone. So they need help to learn how to learn, and that’s what self-directed learning is all about, the aim being, little by little, to make learners autonomous in their learning.
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