Self Determined Learning Practice in English Speaking Class: A Heutagogical Perspective in EFL Class

Abstract

Abstract The development of  teaching and learning practice in EFL class has been prioritized by all educational practioners, linguists and the learners as the subject or the teaching and learning process.  The transformational design of learning  as promoted in heutagogical learning, a self determined learning has brought many benefits toward students’ life skills. The skills that  make the students become autonomous, have high motivation, get better achievement, have positive commitment to survive in learning and compete globally.  The objective of this research is to describe how self determined learning is practiced in Speaking of EFL class. It is a heutagogical perspectives in EFL class. To answer that question, Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is used as the method to identify, study, evaluate, and interpret the research about interesting phenomenon with certain relevant research questions. By describing the findings of how self regulated learning is practiced in English speaking from relevant studies, it will be insightful input for designing interesting and innovative  teaching and learning processs of English Speaking in the classroom of EFL. The data is taken from relevant studies (bibliometric data) in reputated journal. The literature review  explored in this study is  about  English speaking class and the activities; heutagogy approach, and self determined learning practice. The result shows that: lecturer/ teacher become: 1. a designer of learning (create tasks and instruction digitally using own space); 2. build individual pattern of learning spaces and opportunities (by promoting peer mentorship); 3.  draw upon their own context  related technological, community, society, subject and discipline knowledge and skills (promoting VLE, Virtual Learning Environment, Creating special social media as the place for presenting and performing speaking skills proficiency). Hopefully, this study can  help the teacher/lecturer of English of EFL and the lecturers of Speaking class also the students to bridge the challenging situations in pandemic era and make the students become a responsible manager for their own  English speaking learning.