Talking shop: Aspects of autonomous learning

Abstract

Leslie Dickinson is currently Senior Lecturer at the Moray House Institute of Education at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has written several books and articles on learner autonomy, including Self-Instruction in Language Learning and Learning Training for Language Learning. In this interview he talks about the qualities and characteristics of autonomous learners, the influences on his own thinking about autonomy and the related concept of learner training, his current research, and his particular interest in self-assessment.