The game “Autonomous Me” as a reflection tool for learning foreign languages

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Walkyria Passos Magno e
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Silva, Fernanda Souza e
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/25025
• topic: autonomy; learning process awareness; foreign languages learning; autonomia; conscientização do processo de aprendizagem; aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras

Being autonomous is fundamental for competence development in a foreign language. It is impossible to learn another language without continuous actions that go way beyond the ones commanded by a teacher. However, metacognitively organizing the autonomization process has always been a challenge to most students. Tassinari (2015) proposes a model that aims at helping students in this process. This text, besides discussing the individual basis of the autonomization process, transforms Tassinari’s model into a game to be collectively played. It shows how this was done and the results of an experimental round played by a group of freshmen with different levels of command of the language. Results show that there was a higher level of awareness among students concerning on one hand what really means learning a language and on the other which are the dimensions that need to be activated in order to achieve successful learning.