A Research On Strategies Of Autonomous Cultural Knowledge Learning Of Non-English Major Students

Autonomous learning is a process of active construction on knowledge which takes place in a certain situation. For foreign language learners, the acquisition of linguistic knowledge is achieved under the related cultural background. Language and culture are inseparable. Therefore, the understanding of the related culture is very important and necessary in the language learning. However, the author finds that non-English major students attach excessive weight to vocabularies, grammars and syntactic structures but ignore the learning of cultural knowledge through my literature reading and personal teaching practice. The students lack the awareness of cultural learning seriously. Their abilities of autonomous cultural knowledge learning are weak. This has become a serious obstacle in students’ further improvement of the input of the language. It is difficult to achieve students’ expected learning objective. It has been an urgent issue to improve students’ abilities of autonomous cultural knowledge learning.This thesis mainly studies the strategies on non-English major students’ autonomous cultural knowledge learning guided by Constructivism. The author makes a practical research in teaching practice by means of questionnaire and finally summaries the effective strategies on autonomous cultural knowledge learning from aspects of in-classroom and extra-classroom respectively. In class, there are situational teaching, autonomous learning and cooperative learning; for extra-classroom, there are self-learning models of online learning and extra-curriculum activity. This research will not only play an important guiding role in promoting students’abilities in autonomous cultural knowledge learning but also be significant in optimizing the theory of autonomous cultural knowledge learning.