Japanese Students' Foreign Language Acquisition Learner Autonomy : Actual Situation and Some Suggestions for its Promotion

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This paper tries to outline Japanese students' autonomous learning capabilities by contrasting behaviour patterns and characteristics that are considered supportive to successful language learning with those that Japanese university students show in the process of learning their second or third language. It pleads for a systematic and explicit promotion of more autonomy in a university classroom context, in order to help students become more efficient language learners. The last chapter attempts to give some general procedures and sets of classroom activities that might help introduce routines of metacognitive considerations in tasks and exercises, leading to more self-reflection on the students' learning process as a basis for self-directed and successful language acquisition. Task orientated activities and projects that implicitly promote autonomous learning shall not be discussed in this paper for reasons of brevity although they are of vital importance.