EMPOWERING LEARNERS’ SELF-REGULATED LEARNING: A STRATEGY TO INDEPENDENT LEARNER

Abstract

Self-regulated learning activities are designed to encourage learners to actively participate in their own learning. Self-regulated learning allows learners to become independent learners in designing syllabi and lesson plans through drill assignments. The drill assignment is given by an instructor to strengthen the connections which are formed in the process of learners’ growth in mental motor skills. Instructional Design is a course that introduces learners to design their own instruction by designing syllabi and lesson plans and teaching media related to their chosen English instructional material. Monitoring learners’ activity by instructional goals and giving feedback on the learners’ assignments are the Instructor’s roles. Since learners are trained to be teachers, they must know how to design or create their own syllabus and lesson plan, teaching media related to the topic they are going to teach. Once learners create syllabi and lesson plans, they are required to determine Standard Competence (SK) Basic Competence (KD), and Indicator and the last is an instructional goal. Based on the syllabi and lesson plans they have designed, it is obviously described that the learners are capable to determine standard competencies based on operational verbs according to Bloom’s taxonomy as three domains stated, cognitive, affective, and psychomotor