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Possible activity: Put students in small groups and ask them to think about any of their groupmates who take an active role in their learning. Ask them to characterise such learners.
Learners who take an active role in their learning:

~ take responsibility for their own learning

~ evaluate their own learning

~ are hardworking

~ are always well prepared

~ are motivated

~ work independently

~ develop learning strategies

~ set their own learning goals

~ define the ways to achieve the goals

~ always seek for further information and study on their own

~ find different ways to improve their language skills

Exercise 3. Ask the following question from the students:

- How to strengthen the power of self-study?

Ask the students to read the success story of the grandpa. Invite some volunteers to retell some successful lives of people they know.

Exercise 5. Give students enough time to read the passage about e-portfolio. Put students in small groups and let them discuss the advantages of e-portfolios in language learning.
An electronic portfolio (also known as an e-portfolio, e-portfolio, digital

portfolio, or online portfolio) is a collection of electronic evidence assembled

and managed by a user, usually on the Web. Such electronic evidence may

include inputted text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and

hyperlinks. E-portfolios are both demonstrations of the user’s abilities and

platforms for self-expression, and, if they are online, they can be maintained

dynamically over time.

An e-portfolio can be seen as a type of learning record that provides actual

evidence of achievement. Learning records are closely related to the Learning

Plan, an emerging tool that is being used to manage learning by individuals,

teams, communities of interest, and organizations. To the extent that a Personal

Learning Environment captures and displays a learning record, it also might be

understood to be an electronic portfolio.

E-portfolios, like traditional portfolios, can facilitate students’ reflection on

their own learning, leading to more awareness of learning strategies and needs.

Results of a comparative research, by M. van Wesel and Prop, between

paper-based portfolios and electronic portfolios in the same setting, suggest use

of an electronic portfolio leads to better learning outcomes.

Exercise 6. Organize a group discussion using the following

eliciting the following questions:

- What are the qualities of a person with independent study skills?

- Do you have these qualities?

- What skills that you have learnt will be useful in your study and your future

profession?

- What other autonomous learning skills you think you need to develop and

how you can do it?