The Academic Advising and the Learning Diary as resources for the development of autonomy in the context of teaching and learning German as a Foreign Language

Abstract

This article advocates the need for a work dedicated to the development of autonomy strategies that can contribute to the awareness of students of German as a Foreign Language on its importance in the learning process at the university context. To this purpose, a survey was developed under graduate students of German at a university in Rio de Janeiro, in order to investigate the influence of the use of methodological resources such as the individual advising and the learning diary over their perception of aspects related to autonomous learning and the central role of learners in the learning/ acquisition process of German as Foreign Language. Thus, this work will discuss not only the results of this research, but will also present the main theoretical assumptions that guided the data analysis

Keywords

• Autonomy
• Academic Advising
• Learning Diary
• German as Foreign Language