Résumé:
This paper investigate the chalenges facing teachers in fostering learner autonomy within the Algerian secondary schools. The educational system in Algeria has lately witnessed a genaral reform by adopting the competency based appraoch, one of the its basic objectives is to make the EFL learner more autonomous and self reliant. Despite the fact that this approach has been implemented for eleven years in the algerian secondary school, it appears that EFL teachers in secondary education and even in university are still failing in fastering their learner's autonomy. Therefore, the question wich is raised : why ? are teachers unable to improve their pupils' independancy in order to provide an effective study, we employed both qualitative and quantitative research approach.