A Study On Cooperative Autonomous Learning Instruction Model In Class

With the development of the world's politics, economy, and culture, the international communication is becoming more and more common. English is mostly used as working language by most international meetings and trade activities that learning English is becoming more and more important and necessary nowadays. At same time, the quickly changeable world calls for the life-long learning so learner autonomy for language needs urgently developing all over the world. Besides, learner autonomy (LA) is a universal concept that is also suitable to Chinese context, inwhich fostering learner autonomy in ELT matches our wider educational goal——totrain learners to be independent individuals who can live and work successfully and independently in society.Training LA has variety of ways, one of which is through the instruction model in class. Many linguists and educators have succeeded in doing it. According to the Chinese learning custom and context, in which teacher-centeredness takes the place of the classroom teaching and the students foster dependent spoon-fed habit in learning. So the students need an instruction model to transfer to autonomous learning with the characteristic of learner-centeredness. Cooperative learning offers a free, harmonious and interdependent climate for LA development, promoting learner responsibility and helping individuals from dependence, to interdependence and to independence at last.This paper presents an experimental study of learner autonomy training though the Cooperative Autonomous Learning Instruction Model in Class (CALIMC) on non-major English college freshmen for a semester in order to cultivate the subjects' autonomy in English learning. It starts with a pretest for the 88 subjects (from two classes) majoring software from Jiangxi Science and Technology University (JSTU), Nanchang campus and the equivalent groups are randomly assigned as the control group and the experimental group. The primary research hypotheses are 1) CALIMC is an effective language-learning model for promoting learner autonomy. 2) The...