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    Astudy of the Practice of Autonomous. Learning in Teachers' Education Withparticular Reference to Bahir Dar Univer Dar University
    (Addis Ababa University, 2007-06) Maru, Nuru-Razik; Kebede, Seime (PhD)
    The purpose of this study was to find out whether or not 3rd year Bahir, University English major students made strive towards autonomous learning. The study particularly aimed at examining students' use of cognitive, meta cognitive, self-assessment and self-access learning strategies. To this effect, two techniques of data collection instruments were devised: questionnaire and interviews. Open ended and close ended questionnaire were distributed to 60 students and interview was held with 10 students. The data obtained from the questionnaire and interviews were analyzed. The results of the analysis revealed that the subjects use cognitive strategies in their language learning process frequently. However, the subjects employ meta cognitive strategies rarely. It was also found out that the students lack the ability to self-assess their progress and reflect back up on their learning process. Furthermore, it was indicated that the subjects participate in outside classroom listening frequently since it holds learners' attention. On the contrary, they participate in outside classroom speaking and reading rarely. On the basis of these results, it is recommended that the students need to be trained to be aware of the value of using learning strategies reflection and outside classroom learning and how to use them effectively so that they can make a meaningful progress towards autonomy.