Human beings have the need to learn and the capacity to do it by themselves. Although the help of an expert or a teacher is always very useful and comforting, we should be able to learn without support from others because in this way, we depend on ourselves and not on others for knowledge. Moreover, being a self-taught person will give us self-confidence, which apart from being very gratifying, will be essential to promote autonomy in learning.
Moreover, learner autonomy is freedom. We know better than others our level of the language, what skills or aspects of the language we need to go deeply into and of course, we know our goals and objectives. Learner autonomy will surely help you to achieve these objectives because who knows better than you what your wants, your needs and your expectations are?
Motivation is an essential aspect in sef-education. We need to be motivated to learn and improve day after day. In fact, I venture to say that motivation is the key factor in the process of learning, in general, and self-learning, in particular. Therefore, we should have the ability to stimulate ourselves when we are discouraged by nurturing motivating thoughts and neutralizing negative ones. The important thing is to keep moving forwards and to struggle to get results and reach our objectives. If you want to know more about self motivation, click here.
