An Empirical Study On Cultivating Learners' Autonomy In International Study Schools

Since the increased numbers of Chinese students who choose to study abroad entail a growing need for learners'autonomy training, it is with students who have learned passivity from their previous educational experience that we may see most value in learner training. Thus, it is urgent to find an appropriate teaching approach to help those students in departure-course change their attitudes and learning styles to organize their own learning.Those students, whose mother tongue is not English, already possess study skills to an advanced level in Chinese. They need help to transfer their skills into English and adjust them to a different academic environment. Therefore,based on constructivism and meta-cognitive strategy theories, this research tries to explore the measures to develop learners'autonomy in international study schools and help them to make up for their English academic study skills (including listening, speaking, writing and grammar) and to shift their learning attitudes and learning styles to adapt to the future life smoothly.In order to prove the feasibility of learners'autonomy training in international school, the author made it by means of carrying out an experiment on Chongqing No. One International Study School. By using the results obtained from the posttest and questionnaire to analyze the effects of the experiment, this experiment suggests that autonomous learning-teaching training model is available in cultivating the students'autonomy in international study schools. The author also put forwards some suggestions and points out some problems of the experiment. In the end, the thesis is attached with the forms of interview and questionnaire.