Teacher autonomy in higher education : a prerequisite to learner autonomy development

الملخص EN

Since its emergence, learner autonomy has always been at the heart of language education; however, teacher autonomy seems to be somehow ignored.

Thus, this paper attempts to study the extent to which the development of learner autonomy is dependent upon teacher autonomy.

To collect the necessary information, a questionnaire was administrated to 18 teachers at Ahmed Zabana University of Relizane.

Findings indicated that effective implementation of autonomous learning requires teachers to be autonomous first.