Reflection on week 11 reading: Learner Autonomy and Tandem Learning

In this paper, the author, Schwienhorst, discusses about the relationship between pedagogy and technology. There are three different perspectives that he mentions: an individual-cognitive, a social-interactive, and an experimental-participatory perspective.

"Individual-cognitive" perspective is that reflection and awareness are paramount to learner's learning progress. "Social-interactive" perspective is that students learn through meaningful interactions with native speakers and peers. The interactions are involved scaffolding and feedback which can help learners develop linguistics awareness. "Experimental-participartory" perspective is that learners are supervised and control during their learning process. In this case, learners' awareness of language will be raised.

Tandem learning means that there are two learners' of complementary L1-L2 combinations. These two learners can learn from each other.

In my personal experience, I believe that technology definitely can benefit students' learning, no matter how old you are or what nationality you are. Frankly technology becomes more advance and convenient. People get information whenever and wherever they want. That means learning through technology is liked a trend in today society and I assume that this trend is never passed. It would only become better. Therefore, according to those three perspectives of learning from Schwienhorst, they can absolutely help students learning better in different occasions.