El aprendizaje autónomo como estrategia de enseñanza y aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera en los estudiantes de la Escuela de Idiomas de la Universidad Técnica de Manabí.

Abstract

The present research, consists of a conceptual, methodological and author's own analysis, properly sustained previous a search for information and a fieldwork on Autonomous Learning and learning strategies of a Foreign Language. To start, this work begins with a thorough investigation of concepts and knowledge about autonomous learning followed by types of intelligences and teaching - learning strategies; To sustain this work, it was also done a research on concepts about the evidence portfolio and its use in higher education was also carried out. After that, it became the tool for qualitativequantitative analysis of the methodology, applying surveys to teachers and students and an interview with the vice-dean of the Language and Linguistics school. Once the information was processed and after the analysis and interpretation of the results, the lack of direction of the cases was shown when assigning the tasks to the language students, resulting in the most relevant learning strategies and techniques among the students of the language school for the learning of a foreign language, finally, to create a manual of teaching and learning strategies of an FL to put into the portfolio of student and teacher evidences, in order to improve the quality of teaching and the absorption quickness of FL in the instance of autonomous learning in higher education.