The Experimental Research On Self-regulated Teaching And Learning Class Model Of English In Senior High Schools

Autonomous learning has been a buazzword in foreign language teaching since the 1980s.In recent years, autonomous learning has been a hot topic in pedagogy and psychology field."New curriculum standard for English teaching in China"requires teachers change the traditional teaching methods and make students improve their learning ability by adopting"self-regulated learning"model. Most of the researchers and educators hold the same point of view that fostering learners'autonomy is one of the most important goals on language teaching . What's the most important for a teacher is not how much knowledge he can teach the students,but how he can cultivate students to grasp the learning strategy and to develop students'ability of acquiring knowledge.In this thesis ,the author made a historical overview of the background of autonomous learning and states the present situation of learner autonomy both in the west and in China.,and then the author defines the term of autonomous learning and summarizes the factors that affect it .After that,two questionnaires are analyzed to examine the degrees and the present situation of the students'and teachers'autonomous learning and the author discovers problems in their autonomy of learning English from the students in No.1 middle school in Songyuan.The author also puts forward some strategy and measures to improve students'competence of autonomous learning according to the present situation.To better the current situation of English learning in senior middle school,the author puts forwards"the self-accessed English teaching and learning model based on"teaching after learning and teaching motivates learning"for senior high school English teaching.An experiment is designed and carried out on the self-access English teaching and learning model at the author's school.The result of the experiment shows that the students in the experimental class achieved greater autonomy and made greater progress in English learning during the experimental time. The study attempts to answer the following two questions:(1)Can students'ability of English autonomous learning be cultivated in senior middle school?(2)Can cultivating students'ability of English autonomous learning improve their grades in English?The findings indicate that senior high school students'ability of English autonomous learning can be cultivated and self-regulated teaching and learning model can improve students'ability of English autonomous learning and it can significantly improve their grades in English.