A Research On The English Learning Strategies Training Of Junior Middle School Students

Since the 1970s,the emergence and development of cognitive Psychology has laid a theoretic foundation for the research on learning strategies. Previously,guided by behaviorist Psychology,foreign language teaching put much emphasis on"how to teach,"with the study on"how to learn", being neglected, thus resulted in inefficiency in language teaching. At that time,society advanced a new request to education-to cultivate self-dependent learners who absorb new knowledge all by themselves. Set in such situation,the focus on improving learning efficiency for students as well as lessening the burden of obtaining academic success has resulted in researchers studying behaviors specific to learning strategies.The contemporary specialists in education and psychologists have realized that the basic purpose of education is to make students independent, autonomous and effective learners, and to teach them how to learn. These learned behaviors result in students developing effective learning strategies which result in learning efficiency, as well as translate into academic success for the students at any level our"English syllabus"has labeled"forming efficient learning strategies"one of the most important teaching purposes. issued in July, 2001 has made the training of students'learning strategies a key aspect in curriculum objective.According to the learners'cognitive process in learning, this thesis classifies English learning strategies into: regulating strategies , cognitive strategies, resource strategies and communicative strategies. The author's questionnaire surveyed 432 students and 21 teachers from Senior One, Yubin junior middle school of Fengman district and Experimental school of Fengman district ,Jilin. The study analyzed the learning strategy state of Chinese middle school students, and provided some approaches in strategy training. hopefully, all this may serve as a theoretic basis and actual reference in helping middle school teachers with their teaching improvement .This thesis is constituted by five chapters.Chapter One: PrefaceChapter Two:Conception and other research of learning strategiesChapter Three:Research on learning strategies training Chapter Four:Investigating and analyzing the learning strategies training Chapter Five: A case of learning strategies training and suggestions Chapter Two and three are the theoretic foundation of the whole text. Chapter Four is the most important . We investige the the conduction of English learning strategies training in middle schools . We finds some problems through deep analysis ,we finds the reasons for the problems and purposes some suggestions for them . Chapter Five : from theory to practice, we try to provide the mass of middle school teachers in their actual teaching activities , with functional traing approaches and concrete suggestion in developing the students'learning strategies...