A Survey Of English Major Students’ Reflective English Learning In Normal Colleges

Everyone faces a lifetime task-learning. So, the research about learning has become one of the most important contents of education. As the change of the Times and the teaching approaches, the contemporary educators and psychologists have realized that the basic goal of education is to enable students to become independent, autonomous and effective. Therefore, it is necessary for us to make some researches on the learning styles that can promote students to learn.Based on the understanding of modern education approaches and the previous studies on metacognition and reflective learning theories, this paper focuses on combining the reflective learning with English learning. Firstly, through the questionnaire, the paper quantitatively analyzes the general situation of students’ reflection awareness and reflection strategy they used during their learning process. Secondly, combining the analysis of interviews with classroom observations, the paper makes a further analysis to students’ general situation of reflection English learning from the qualitative perspective. Thirdly, according to the data, the paper tries to summarize the general reflection strategies when students make reflection on these three different aspects (learning objective, learning process, and learning result). Finally, the paper tries to sum up the reasons of the present situation by combining the results of the questionnaire, the interviews of students with the classroom observations.According to the investigation, the paper has four major findings. (1) The present situation of students’ reflective English learning awareness is not very good. (2) Some of students are not so clear to the definition, characteristic, content and strategy of reflection English learning. (3) Though some of students understand the importance of the reflection English learning, they lack reflective strategies to implement the reflection. (4) Most of students prefer to use traditional reflection strategies, such as, test. So, based on the reasons, the paper tries to make some suggestions which can help students implement the reflective English learning.