The purpose of this study is to present some autonomy-developing activities which were designed and implemented by a teacher-researcher and her students for the 2013 Fall semester. The study participants were 24 fifth graders at an underprivileged are...
The purpose of this study is to present some autonomy-developing activities which were designed and implemented by a teacher-researcher and her students for the 2013 Fall semester. The study participants were 24 fifth graders at an underprivileged area of a southern mid-sized city. The students’ positive reactions towards the activities are also presented. Major data gathering sources were interviews, the students’ learning journals, the teacher’s observation report, study progress reports at Jeonbuk E school (http://eschool.jbedu.kr/) and two-time questionnaires. When the data were analyzed according to qualitative study tradition, it was found that three types of autonomy-developing activities helped most participants become more autonomous. These autonomy-developing activities would be very helpful for teachers and researchers who want to improve primary-school low-income students’ autonomy in English learning.