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1、Fostering students English Learning AutonomyIntroduction The ultimate goal of English teaching in China is to develop learners communicative competence and good learning strategies, so as to become autonomous language learners and users. Theoretically speaking, any kind of teaching is subjected to t
2、he eventual goal of educationto promote students learning autonomy.Learner autonomy refers to the capability to determine the learning objectives, select methods, monitor the procedure and evaluate the results. From the early 1970s, our English teaching has increasingly emphasized the importance of
3、autonomous learning. Since the 1980s, learner autonomy has gained momentum in the education field. Today more and more students are required to become autonomous learners to fit the change pace of society. However, many teachers have not adjusted their roles and have not laid stress on promoting aut
4、onomous learning Chapter 1 Teachers role 1.1 Definition of Role The term “role” is a familiar one and its French circumflex has been worn away by frequent use. It can be defined generally as a part that people play in the performance of social life. A role, put in precise sociological terms by Banto
5、n, is “a set of norms and expectation applied to incumbents of a particular position”. The incumbents this paper is concerned with are those who take up position in the English language class: English teachers. The concept “role” has become very popular in English language teaching (ELT) and is a te
6、rm in common usage to denote the functions that teachers and learners perform during the course of lesson. In the social setting of the classroom, teachers and learners expectations about what are appropriate functions in various learning tasks will determine the role that each performs.1.2 Teachers
7、 Role in the Traditional English Language Teaching In the 1960s and 1970s in particular there was much reflection in educational writing in western cultures on traditional teacher-directed, examination-oriented and grammar-and-vocabulary-based. The evaluation of a teacher had depended on the amount
8、of knowledge he or she crammed into the students head: the more, the better. The teacher is the unquestionable “authority, a knowledge-giver” (Cortazzi and Jin 1996), who dominates the class from the beginning to the end, while the students are just “ignorant audience” who write down the precious wo
9、rds and offer their applause and laughter caused by the admiration. The teaching is focused on linguistic competence rather than communication competence. There is little cooperation between teacher and students and the teacher gets little feedback from his or her “audience”.1.3 The Need for the Stu
10、dyAs we all know, more and more people with good command of English are in urgent need. Present Chinese mode of instruction which aims at the transmission of knowledge in English language teaching and learning, cannot well develop learners autonomy and guide learners to learn how to learn, nor can i
11、t meet the change situation and economic and social need.With the development of English teaching reformation, many people realize the fact that there is an urgent need for English language teaching innovation. There is a feeling often aired in recent journals and conference speeches, that there has
12、 been too much “teaching” and not enough “learning”. This perception has been at the heart of movements in favor of what has come to be known as the learner-centered or student-centered teaching. Therefore there is a must for teacher to change his role to foster students English autonomous learning.
13、 So this paper will pay attention to teachers role and discuss how could a teacher change his role from authority to facilitator to explore students autonomy. Meanwhile, some methods also are providingChapter 2 Autonomous Learning 2.1 Autonomous as a Goal of Education Today the important aspect of e
14、ducation is to teach students how to acquire knowledge and how to maintain enthusiastic about learning. Since lifelong learning becomes more and more important, learner autonomy inevitably arouse public attention by means of researches and practice. The most common notion for autonomy is as a goal o
15、f education. Fostering a learners autonomy should be regarded as one of the most important goals that teachers and educators try to pursue. On the other hand, learners autonomy lays the foundation of lifelong learning. We are now in the era of information explosion. There is a lot for us to learn in
16、 science and in the world. Education itself has been affected by the world. We must combine learning with surviving in this world and notice the links between learning and real life because we are now in the world of learning. It goes without doubt that to improve students ability to learn autonomously becomes the duty of every teacher. It is of course possible to apply this idea to English lifelong learning
