Sohar CAS English Department has the pleasure to conduct a one-day workshop on learner autonomy and its effective role in empowering learners in Oman. It is hoped that this workshop will become a fruitful occasion for teachers and education professionals to engage themselves in a scholarly event to showcase new strategies, share lessons, explore case studies and consider in-depth reports in the field of learner autonomy. The workshop`s Scientific Research Committee welcomes proposals related to any of the following sub-themes:
- The concept of learning autonomy
- Learning styles and autonomy
- Methods and resources to foster autonomy
- Computer tools and applications that could be applied to improve learner autonomy
- Developing strategies to encourage learner autonomy
- Encouraging students to learn autonomously
- Cultural differences in addressing autonomy
- Peer mediated instruction
- Peer- led team learning
- Alternative assessment
- Student self-reflection
- Technology promoting autonomous learning
- Motivation and independent learning
- New critical approaches to learner autonomy
- Learner autonomy and learner needs
- Learner autonomy as a spectrum
- The role of motivation in learner autonomy
- The role of the academic environment in fostering learner autonomy (teachers, peers, library, administration, curriculum, curricular and extra-curricular activities)
- The role of Study Skills courses in building learner autonomy
- Challenges in learner autonomy
- The role of psychology in learner autonomy
- Learner autonomy inside and outside the classroom
- Limitations of learner autonomy
- Learner autonomy and self-assessment
- The role of peer tutoring in promoting learner autonomy
- Learner autonomy and constructivism
- Learner autonomy across cultures Please note that presenters are free to work on any other topics related to learner autonomy.