An analysis of personal practices

Advice is in fact help in determining learning objectives, organising learning materially, even in time and space, organising learning, choosing resources, choosing learning activities, learning to evaluate what has been done. When learners learn the language and engage in activities, they have something to say about what they’ve done and something to reflect on. So counselling involves asking learners to talk about what they have done, so that they can reflect on it. The advisor’s job is to take the learner through a more detailed analysis of what he or she has done, so as to be able to guide the rest of the learning process, to make the learner aware of what he or she has done and whether it is relevant to his or her project. It’s all about supporting the development of a project.

In any case, the aim is to make the learner increasingly autonomous, so that he or she needs less and less advice.