Independent Learning Strategies Adopted by Higher Secondary Level Learners

Abstract

The present research on Independent Learning Strategies Adopted by Higher Secondary Level Learners tries to explore the students’ perceptions and their independent behaviour through autonomous learning.It also endeavours to find out the learner’s independent practices in learning English.For fulfilling this research, I selected Eighty students as sample population from different four Higher Secondary School via purposive non-random sampling procedure. As data collection tools, I used questionnaires which were related to the Independent learning and were close ended questions.The findings of this research showed that the students' endeavor of Independent learning helps their classroom learning and learning process.For example independent learning enabled learners to decide what they had to learn and what would be their role in classroom .It was found that learners made good practice in Independent Learning. This study consists of four chapters. The first chapter provides theoretical input for independent language learning. Similarly, the second chapter deals with the researcher methodology adopted for the study in which the sources of data,sampling procedure tools for data collection process of data collection and limitations of the study are included. Likewise,the third chapter deals with descriptive analysis of the students practices of Independent learning and teachers, perception on them in four schools. These are based on questionnaire for students and teachers. Based on the analysis and interpretation of the data,the findings have been presented under chapter four. The final chapter lists the major findings and recommendations of the study. The references and appendices form the concluding part of the thesis.