Self-regulation Learning Theory Under The Guidance Of Adult Learning

Arnold Toynbee has ever talked about in Prospects of the 21st Century, "Nowadays, since the knowledge has been increasing daily and the explanation to it has been changing unceasingly, only the full-time adolescent education is not enough. Therefore, People need to carry on the self-education in all of his life unceasingly." To teach is for not to teach. Teaching is still a low technical labor-concentrated industry. For the adult learners, since their time is limited, it is not a good method to raise their study efficiency depending on teaching completely, while to seek an -effective study method accompanied by teaching assist will be a beneficial attempt. For the rich connotation and the scientific system of the self-regulated learning theory, the author thought that it can advance the adult learning efficiency even the development of adult education through its instruction of adult learning on theory and practice.Under the showing of the learners' independent premise, the self-regulated learning theory has revealed a scientific learning process through the deep research on knowledge obtaining process, cognition strategy, information processing, goal setting, emotion and so on. Based on the adult learners' characteristic, the author raises the scientific process of adult self-regulated learning and its methodology and strategy, through the analysis on essence of self-regulated learning and its feasibility and superiority for adults. The author carries on the research from the following 4 aspects:I. The goal setting of adult self-regulated learningThe goal setting is the starting mechanism and the compass of self-regulated learning. The adult learners should set a goal which can meet their zone of Proximal Development and their needs, and only this kind of goal can fully display their study initiative and guide them to self-realization. Self-realization is the should-be existence of adults' learning orientation value.II.Information processing of adult self-regulated learningInformation processing system is the basis of self-regulated learning. The cultivation of adults' learning capacity should be based on the optimization of their information regulating system, and the most important is the advance of information ability through the construction of self-schema and the self-regulating of assimilation and accommodation to solve the problem.III. Psychological capacity of adult self-regulated learningPsychological capacity is the power origin of self-regulated learning. It includes: learning volition, meta-cognition, learning strategy, motivation regulating and external factors regulating. Based on the adult learners' characteristic, the author raises methodology and strategy of adult self-regulated learning: to be self-control and self-aware through the cultivation of learning volition; to be monitoring on cognition activity through the cultivation of meta-cognition; to be methodology and flexible on learning through the cultivation of strategy utilization; to be self-encouraged through the cultivation of motivation regulating; to be good at using all kinds of resources through the cultivation of external factors regulating.IV.Self-efficacy in adult self-regulated learningSelf-efficacy is the essential variable of self-regulated learning. It is influenced by 4 aspects: experiences in person, vicarious experiences, hint, and emotion. For the adult learners, the cause of their low Self-efficacy is the duality of experiences. In order to enhance the self-efficacy, adult learners should form the positive attribute and scientific understanding on themselves, through the strengthening to obtain the high self-efficacy.