An autonomous learner is someone who is able to learn on their own. In a sense, every learner is autonomous to some extent because each student in the classroom has to learn for themselves. Teachers try to help students learn by exposing them to English and providing opportunities for them to practice the new language in class as well as revise and learn at home, but they cannot learn for their students.
Students who are successful are those who take some responsibility for their learning. We can promote this by encouraging and fostering students’ ability to remember, learn, extrapolate and achieve on their own. Think about something you learned to do. Someone probably showed you what to do and how to do it, but in the end it was up to you to try for yourself. The moment that you did this was the moment you really began to learn.
(LOWES, Ricky. Helping Students to Learn. A Guide to Learner Autonomy. Richmond : 1998, p.5)
What Teaching Approach is best described by the passage above?