| dc.description.abstract | Autonomous learning becomes the goal of successful teaching and learning
process. Autonomous learners usually have some behaviors divided into some
categories which indicate them as autonomous learners, so that understanding
about their behaviors is so important. This study aimed to find out the strongest
students autonomous learning behaviors category at English Language Education
Department of a private university in Yogyakarta. The other purpose was to reveal
the level of autonomous learning. The respondents were 90 students who had
already learnt English in this university. Survey as quantitative research method
was used and the questionnaire was used as the instrument of this study. The
result showed that external resources became the strongest autonomous learning
behaviors category. It means that the respondents often use resources for their
learning, such as internet or books. It was out of the other six autonomous
learning behaviors categories, namely planning, reflection, setting objectives and
levels, materials and classroom activities, learning styles and strategies, and
evaluating learning. Then, the level of autonomous learning was in the level of
“autonomous” so that most of them are often do some behaviors of autonomous
learning. This study was beneficial for the teacher for providing activities which
can train the autonomous learner behaviors in learning. Then, it is also important
for the students to know about autonomous learning behaviors, so that they can
improve their behaviors categories which are still less autonomous. Then for other
researchers, this research can be the reference for studying the similar topic. | en_US |
