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Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

说得很清楚，在高职院校教学的最终目的是培养合格确认的生产，建设，管理服务等技术领域中的应用技术型人才的高等职业教育（2000），英语新标准等。学习学习生活，是高等职业教育的学生的要求。然而，主要的英语学习环境，目前，在中国，仅提供英语课堂学生接触英语的机会非常有限。
It is Stated very clearly in The New English Standard for Higher Vocational Education(2000) that the ultimate aim of teaching in higher vocational college is to cultivate thewell-qualified applied-technique-oriented talents in technical fields such as production,construction, management service and so on. Learning to leam for life is the requirement of higher vocational education for students. However, English classroom in China, the main English learning environment at present, only provides students with very limited opportunities to be exposed to English. Learning time at school can hardly guarantee that theycan obtain and practice English. Moreover, the knowledge that learners obtained at theirschools may become obsolete and can't keep pace with the current "knowledge explosion"society. How to instruct students' in acquiring the individual learning ability and enhancingautonomous learning ability has attracted a great number of researchers' attention.Since the early 1970’s, the focus of foreign language teaching learning has a great shiftfrom teachers-centered approach，in which knowledge of skills and language are merelyimparted by the teacher in class, to learners-centered one, in which the ability of usinglanguage and learning independently is fostered besides language knowledge and skills.Learners' autonomy has been enjoying increased attention and study of learner autonomy hasbeen the focus of foreign language education. Therefore to cultivate learners' autonomy has become an important and ultimate goal of language education. Stimulating learners' autonomy reflects the modem English teaching concept “taking humans as essentials", corresponds to the communicative principle of English teaching and has a significance forChina's English teaching innovation.

因此，要培养学习者的自主性已经成为一项重要而语文教育的终极目标。激发学习者的自主性反映调制解调器的英语教学理念“以人作为必需品”，，对应英语教学的交际原则，为中国的英语教学创新具有重要意义。

The traditional teaching methods, which cram knowledge into students" mind rather thaninstruct them to leam, no longer satisfy the needs of the changeful society which has a highdemand for learner autonomy. The overall-development of the learners is of great importancefor their future life. It is believed that to leam is a matter throughout a man's life. As Knowles(1975:9) points out, one of the most important aims in education is “helping individuals to develop the attitudes that learning is a lifelong process and to acquire the skills ofself-directed learning". Students should leam to be independent in learning from theirteachers, that is, they should leam to make their decisions by themselves about what to leamand how to leam. Little (1995:175) states that “genuinely successful learners have alwaysbeen autonomous". Therefore, it is urgent and necessary to develop learner autonomy inEnglish learning and teaching.

1.2 Significance of the Study
It is regarded as important task for language education to foster language learners"autonomy and train autonomous learners. Learning strategies play an important role inimproving autonomous learning ability. Wenden (1985) holds the point of view that learningstrategy plays an extremely important role in facilitating l本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。