The Autonomous Language Learning Toolkit: A Guide for Learners, Educators, and Mentors: A Research-Based Guide for Learners, Educators, and Mentors

The Automous Language Learning Toolkit presents a research-based framework for designing, supporting, and sustaining fully autonomous language learning.In particular, it focuses on less commonly taught languages in higher education, such as heritage languages, research languages, and languages of fieldwork or diplomacy. Drawing on a decade of data from sixty learners studying thirty-five languages - from Swahili and Yoruba to Hmong and beyond - K.D.Thompson and Adeola Agoke distill what actually works when there is no teacher in the room.Their findings are grounded in a rigorous, multi-year study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the U.S.Department of Education, and organized around six essential questions:1.How do successful autonomous learners set goals?2. Which strategies build real proficiency?3. How do learners find and evaluate materials?4. What does productive mentorship look like?5. How should learners assess their own progress?6. How does creating res