A Study on the Autonomous Learning Validity of Chinese EFL Students

Abstract

In accordance with the autonomous learning theory, the present study mainly reports the validity of junior middle school students’ English autonomous learning and explores the strategies to improve students’ English level by the teaching experiment between two classes of Grade Eight in one of the key schools in Henan, China. The researcher selects 115 students as the research subjects who are from two classes of Grade Eight and the teaching experiment lasts for 18 weeks. In this research, the subjects are investigated with questionnaires and interviews. The research results show that students in class one who learn in autonomous ways have higher remarks than those in class two who learn in traditional ways. Students are quite interested in learning English and their ability of autonomous learning has been promoted with the teaching mode of autonomous learning. From the experiment results, it is shown that students’ learning ability can be improved with the training of the autonomous learning strategies. Based on the research results and the current learning situation, some suggestions on cultivating students’ ability of English learning is put forward in the end of this thesis.