Changing Teachers' Role To Facilitate Learner Autonomy Of College English Majors In CALL Environment

The coming century is the era of using computer technology, especially multimedia and Internet. It has caused the feasibility and prosperity of the reform in the College English course by integrating information and autonomous learning into the class. However, most of current research focuses on students and how technology affects them, but less has been done to describe the role of the teachers, especially in the context of CALL. The thesis is to find the way to solve the problem.The participants, 172 students, are undergraduate sophomore students who studied at Jiangxi Normal University (JXNU) of China for the bachelor degree from the foreign language college. This thesis adopts both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate: 1) What are students'needs about teachers'role in facilitating their learning autonomy? 2) What should teachers do in providing strategies during the process of learning? 3) Does teachers'actual behavior match students'expectations of college English majors or not? 4) What should teachers do in helping learners overcome affective barriers and technical anxiety of autonomous English learning in CALL context? 5) What should teachers do in helping learners'self-development in the CALL context of autonomy education and establishment of Internet morality?This study finds that firstly, Students need their teachers'help both psychologically and technically in the context of CALL. Secondly, it's the teacher's responsibility to enhance students'enthusiasm of learning English before trying to arouse their interest in strategy learning and make the strategies adopted by them in harmony with their English studies. Thirdly, teachers'actual behavior cannot match students'expectations in a lot of aspects. Fourthly, Students hope their teachers act as a facilitator in overcoming affective barriers and technical anxiety. Fifthly, the students hope that their teachers act as an inspirator in helping learners'self-development and appropriate atmosphere creator. In order to change teachers'role to facilitate learner autonomy of college English majors in CALL environment, teachers should act as counselor, instructor, helper, organizer, designer, cooperator, (peer partner, participant, friend), inspirator, supporter, monitor, evaluator, resource supplier, atmosphere creator, and technology anxiety helper.