Personalised Language Learning

Personalised Language Learning 

Personalised learning is considered the pedagogical ideology for the 21st century; it celebrates and caters for individual differences (U.S. Education Department, 2010). As far as education is concerned, personalized learning offers choice in learning content, learning approaches and learning pace in order to meet individual learning differences. Specifically, learning a foreign language is a rather a complicated process involving a great personal effort, interaction with authentic materials and contact with other learners. The advent of technology is the turning point of language education as it provides opportunities for authentic interaction with resources and tools that can support the language learning process (Perifanou, 2015).

However, language learners do not follow the same learning pathway. Each of them is pre-packaged with different learning needs, learning objectives, learning styles and learning capabilities and as such language teachers and course designers need to acknowledge this heterogeneity (Cotterall, 2008).