Autonomous learners have insights into their learning styles and strategies;
take an active approach to the learning task at hand;
are willing to take risks, i.e., to communicate in the target language at all costs;
are good guessers;
attend to form as well as to content, that is, place importance on accuracy as well as appropriacy;
develop the target language into a separate reference system and are willing to revise and reject hypotheses and rules that do not apply; and
have a tolerant and outgoing approach to the target language.