A Survey Of College Student's English Autonomous Learning Capability And Its Cultivation

The widely adopted traditional English class's"teacher speaks, students listen" mode is unsuitable for the development of society that urgently needs professional talents who master a foreign language. To change the disadvantage, the National Educational Department issued The Outline of College English Teaching that confirms college English class should cultivate students' autonomous ability mainly. Directed by humanism and cognitive-structuralism, with the guidance of some English teaching theories such as pedagogy, educational psychology and psychological linguistics, based on a new definition of college student's autonomous learning, a survey of college students' English autonomous learning capability has been conducted. After the statistics has been analyzed, college students who have got some problems with English autonomous learning have been put into three categories. Their trait and weakness on attitude, idea of the teacher's function, their participation of class activity and their learning strategy are studied. Finally, some suggestions are provided in the four aspects including stimulate student's motivation, improve their autonomous learning strategy, redefine teacher's function and develop an English autonomous learning environment. In order to solve the existing problems, college students from different categories have to take different measures. Those who have low level learning motivation have to find ways to inspire their English learning motivation. Those who have not grasped learning strategies have to better their English learning strategies. For English teachers, they have to change traditional teaching minds and help college students set up an independent consciousness. At the same time, English teachers have to make up an environment for English autonomous learning with the help of Internet and multimedia.