Investigating EFL learners’ attitudes towards using project-based learning as a means of promoting their autonomous learning.

الملخص

One of the main goals of EFL teachers is to help the students to be
autonomous learners so that they will be able to learn by themselves. William &
Burden (1997) define an autonomous learner as “the one who is equipped with
the appropriate skills and strategies to learn a language in a self-instructed way”.
It is said that project- based learning (PBL) is worth investigating as it motivates
students’ learning autonomy (William & Burden, 1997:p147). In the current
research project-based learning was used on a sample of 83 male/female College
students which are divided into two groups of the 3i4 stage in College of
Education /Dept. of English /University of Salahaddin.-Iraq for the teaching year
2012-2013.