The study of difference between self-taught and non-self-taught learners in terms of the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies

Autonomy and self-learning are concepts that have regained value and meaning in modern methods of foreign language teaching. The purpose of this study is to investigate how language learners can be helped to gain autonomy in learning and self-learning skills in a French language classroom. To provide a solution in this regard, we first need to answer the question, what is the basic difference between self-taught and non-self-taught language learners? Our hypothesis is that self-taught learners naturally have higher "knowledge-skills", "knowledge-learning skills" and higher life experience than others. In order to compare the abilities of self-taught and non-self-taught learners in applying cognitive and metacognitive strategies, we published a call and asked 35 learners who had learned French completely or partially on their own to answer two questionnaires about using cognitive and metacognitive strategies. These two questionnaires are taken from Politzer, McGroarty and Willing. At the same time, 35 people who had not been self-taught in any course of learning French were asked to answer the above two questionnaires. The results of this study, which was presented as a descriptive statistic, show that learners use both strategies They have higher abilities. As a result, it should be said that autonomy and all cognitive and metacognitive strategies, although they may exist naturally in all individuals, but their emergence from potential to actual in most cases is not spontaneous and requires educational support.