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Now, ‘learner-centered’ is a buzzword in translation education and a social constructivist approach, in which knowledge is not viewed as discovered but constructed by a learner, is highly accepted. In keeping with this, this paper focuses on learner autonomy (hereafter LA) and critical thinking in the interests of helping learners break away from a teacher beyond classrooms. LA is defined here as a concept pertaining to understanding of translation, translation competence, and affective factors of learners, and ‘self-reflection’ is an essential element for realizing it. A ‘thinking’ teaching method has been adopted in an undergraduate translation class to foster LA. In this method, before any explanation and lecture by a teacher, students perform translation-related activities, think back, and write a reflective writing(hereafter RW) freely about their feelings, thoughts, opinions, learning, etc. RW here is a useful way of looking into the learning process and of measuring the level of the learner’s LA as it reveals the strengths and weaknesses of a learner and the learner’s' self-reflection. A questionnaire has been conducted to assess whether or not the ‘thinking’ method was helpful in promoting the learners' LA and if so, in what way. Discussions are made based on the RW and the results of the questionnaire.