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Chapter 8 Developing Learner Autonomy 8.1 Defining learner autonomy 8.2 The significance of developing learner autonomy 8.3 Teachers’ role in developing learner autonomy Objectives understand the definition of learner autonomy appreciate the importance of learner autonomy in language teaching and learning apply ways of developing learner autonomy in language teaching and learning Upon completion of this chapter, you should be able to: PART/01 Autonomy is the ability to take charge of one’s own learning. This ability is not inborn but must be acquired either by “natural” means or (as most often happens) by formal learning, in a systematic, deliberate way. (Holec, 1981) The main characteristics of autonomy as an approach to learning are that students take some significant responsibility for