The concept of language learning counselling has become an integral part of many self-access centers at German universities and other post-secondary institutions. Often this counselling is carried out by professionals who can only offer a limited amount of advisory sessions to serve a likewise limited number of students. This paper presents the concept of our tutorial program “Autonomous language learning with tutorial advisory service” which was developed at the Foreign Language Center at the University of Bremen. The student tutors are specially trained for their work to support language learners in planning, performing and evaluating their own learning process. Thus, the tutorial program is a key service to meet the learners’ heterogeneous linguistic skills and professional competencies.