英语专业毕业论文--谈中学生英语自主学习能力的培养

On Developing Middle School Students’

Autonomous Learning Ability in English

Abstract: Autonomous learning ability is one of the most important abilities in English learning. In the volatile information ages, in special, the autonomous learning is necessary for everyone else’s life-long learning and life-long development. However, most of the current middle school students are lack of this learning ability. The mind of waiting, dependence and demanding has gradually increased among them. Basically, they are forced to learn with the accompaniment by their parents and the rigorous monitoring of their teachers. As a result, children (students) themselves are unwilling to learn; their parents are very tired with doing so but have no choice and even worse, their teachers have no idea on what to do. Through most current studies, one of the findings is that the problem of lacking autonomy is virtually serious among middle school students, since it is difficult for them to control themselves or to take their responsibilities for their English learning, which has raised people’s widespread concerns. After researching and studying, another finding is that the reasons for lacking autonomy are various. Apart from some reasons from students themselves, family, school, as well as society should be blamed. The main solution of this problem is that the whole society should focus enough attention on developing the learning autonomy of middle school students.

Key words: autonomous learning ability;develop; dependence; English learning

摘要: 在英语学习过程中，自主学习能力是学习者不可缺少的能力之一，尤其在这瞬息万变的信息时代里，自主学习更是促进其终身学习和终身发展的需要。然而当代的中学生，却出现了自主学习能力“荒”的现象。等、靠（依赖）、要的思想在他们当中不断助长。他们基本上是在父母的陪伴下，老师的严格监督下进行压迫式的学习，其结果是孩子（学生）很不情愿，父母既无赖又辛苦，老师为此很是头疼。通过对当前中学生英语学习情况的研究，发现当代的中学生很难自己管好自己学好英语，很难对自己的英语学习负责，缺乏独立自主能力的情况比较严重，很让人堪忧；经过研究还得出了产生这种现象的原因和解决办法，其中有除了有来自个人、家庭以及学校的原因外，同时也有来自社会的原因，因此得出的解决办法是：我们全社会，应该重视中学生英语学习自主能力的培养。

关键词: 自主学习能力; 培养; 依赖; 英语学习

Ⅰ.Introduction

1.1 Significance of this research

With the development of science and technology, knowledge is being replaced faster and faster. The students nowadays must be cultivated into lifelong learners to adjust themselves to the times of knowledge explosion. The ultimate goal of English teaching in China is to develop learners’ communicative competence and go od learning strategies, so as to become autonomous language learners and users. Everyone knows school education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. So much more is to be learned outside school by students themselves.

Thus that is, the sense of learning autonomy is the essential mind for English learning. Without the sense of learning autonomy, autonomous learning will be just like water without source；establishing a sense of learning autonomy means that students should realize very clearly that it is they themselves not teachers who should take the responsibility for their learning (Huang & Zhang, 2007).Many studies have indicated that autonomous learning is an effective way to cultivate students’ English learning ability in middle school, by which students can show their interests, develop study skills and enhance their creativity.

1.2 Purpose of this paper

With the methodology of literature review, this study is to arouse students to be aware of the importance of autonomy in middle school English learning and to enable them to have a positive attitude toward English learning. Consequently, with the help of autonomy, middle school students will become independent in English learning. After gaining the acknowledge of autonomy, the whole society, including current schools, parents, and students themselves, will realize that we all should pay lots of attention on developing autonomy in English learning.

Ⅱ. Definitions of Learning Autonomy