Students’ perceptions on learning independence: how self-regulated learning strategy helps?

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effects of a self-regulated learning strategy on students’ independence in Literal Reading education. Literal Reading is an educational course working on literal comprehension and assigned to 2nd semester students. This experiment was carried out using a self-regulated learning strategy with the phases; (1) Forethought and Planning phase, (2) Performance Monitoring phase, and (3) Self-Reflection phase. 120 students were selected as participants, with a case study and experimental diary conducted to observe the implementation of the utilized strategy. A questionnaire was distributed to these participants, to determine the patterns by which the self-regulated learning strategy helped in developing independent students. The results showed; (1) The implementation of the learning strategy emphasized goal settings, learning journal completions, and lecturers' feedback reviews, (2) Most students positively perceived the self-regulated learning strategy, by exhibiting some independent characteristics, such as academic goal setting, learning process monitoring, and self-evaluation. These indicated that the self-regulated strategy influenced the development of students' learning Independence.

Keywords

• EFL
• higher education
• independent learning skill
• reading comprehension
• self-regulated learning