AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AUTONOMY IN VIETNAM

Abstract

A survey of articles and conference papers concerning research on foreign language learning autonomy published in major domestic journals and workshops in the past twelve years (2006-2017) leads to the following findings: (1) there has been a steady increase in the number of research articles; (2) students are the main research subjects; (3) current research mainly focuses on introducing, analyzing achievements in this field in the world and then suggesting solutions to students’ learning autonomy in the context of Vietnam; (4) the prevailing research method is non-empirical; (5) research is gaining momentum. Directions for future research are also predicted.