The Cultivation Of The 6th-year Students' Autonomous Learning Abilities In English In Rural Primary Schools

Nowadays, the world has entered into an era of information explosion, with knowledge changing and accumulating every day and the thought of lifelong education becoming more and more popular. In order to better adapt themselves to the era, the students must learn how to learn, the key to which is obtaining autonomous learning ability. Since the implementation of the new curriculum reform, how to help students obtain autonomous learning ability of English has become one of the teaching objectives for English teachers. Currently, many students in rural areas are still in a state of passive learning. They strongly depend on their teachers, lacking autonomy in study and stuck with low learning efficiency. Therefore, it is imperative to improve the students' autonomous learning ability in English. Taking the school where the author teaches as an example, the author studies the cultivation of English-learning autonomy of rural sixth-grade students in this thesis.The thesis first presents the related concepts of autonomous learning, summarizing domestic and overseas research literature on autonomous learning and English autonomous learning, then analyzes the influencing factors and discusses the feasibility and necessity for cultivating English-learning autonomy of six-grade students in rural areas. Then, a survey and interviews are conducted among the students in The Central Primary School of Sungeng Town, Jiyang County on English autonomous learning situation to find out their problems and influencing factors. According to the survey, the rural six-grade students generally have poor English-learning autonomy. Focusing on their English-learning situation, the thesis proposes several methods to cultivate English-learning autonomy, including establishing correct teaching and learning concepts, instructing students with proper learning methods, encouraging cooperative learning, creating external environment that is conductive to autonomous learning and encouraging students to make self-evaluation. After a semester of practice and training, the author conducts another survey on the same group of students and the survey proves that the cultivation methods are effective. In the end, the thesis analyzes the achievements and drawbacks of the study.