investigation of the relationship between university students learning strategies and their autonomy

Abstract

4th year Faculty of Education English majors' are taught academic as well as educational courses. One of the main aims of the learning process in faculty is to help learners to be autonomous ones because this will enable them to depend on themselves to update their information. So, many courses should be designed to develop learners' autonomy. The current study aims at investigating the relationships between the learning strategies 4th year Faculty of Education English majors' use and their autonomy. The participants of the study were 100 male and female students enrolled in the 4th year in Faculty of Education, ‫والنفسية‬ ‫بوية‬ ‫الرت‬ ‫للعلوم‬ ‫الفيوم‬ ‫جامعة‬ ‫جملة‬ 392) ‫الثالث‬ ‫اجلزء‬ (‫ابع‬ ‫الر‬ ‫العدد‬ 3102 Fayoum University in the first semester of the academic year 2014-2015.The study instrument were a learning strategies questionnaire and learner autonomy questionnaire. Biserial correlation coefficient was used to deal with the study statistics. Results indicated that sophisticated strategies users showed a strong correlation coefficient in all autonomy components especially responsibility, reflection and activation of independent strategies. The study presents suggested some topics for further research in the light of the study results.