Learning Autonomy: A Way to Improve English Language Teaching (ELT) in Indonesia

In Indonesia English is the first foreign language and taught as a compulsory subject in secondary and tertiary education with the objective primarily to provide the students with the ability to read English textbooks on their related fields. In spite of the efforts made to improve the teaching especially in secondary school, the result is, so far, still unsatisfactory. This article argues that the implementation of learning autonomy could possibly be a way to improve ELT in Indonesia.