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1.2.2 Significance of the Study
Autonomous learning is a kind of learning method that is strongly advocated by a new  round  of  basic  education  curriculum  reform  in  China,  it  reflects  the  needs  of  the current  education  reform  and  quality-oriented  education  in  our  country.  The  goal  of education is to cultivate  learners’ autonomy, to  enable learners to  acquire the capacity for sustainable development. Only when learners have autonomous learning ability can they carry on lifelong learning and sustainable development. Autonomous learning has important  significance  for  individual  development,  it  is  the  foundation  of  individual lifelong development, it also is the requirement of social development and educational development. In a word, students’ autonomous learning is not only the effective method to improve students’ academic achievements, but is also the foundation of their lifelong learning and development. 
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Chapter Two   Literature Review

Autonomous learning is an important subject in the current education research. In this chapter, a brief review of autonomous learning and its theoretical basis and its study history and current situation will be presented. 

2.1 Autonomous Learning 
Although the concept of 'autonomous learning' has been proposed for many years, so far there is no uniform conclusion on its definition. First  of  all,  in  terms  of  its  name,  in  addition to “autonomous learning”,  western scholars  use  the  following  terms:  “learner  autonomy”,  “self-directed  learning”, “self-access  learning”  and  “independent  learning”,  etc.  (quoted  from  Hedge  2000). Secondly, when Chinese scholars introduced the concept of autonomous learning, they also  don’t  have  a  fixed  translation.  At  the  same  time,  in  regard  to  the  definition  of “autonomous  learning”,  different  scholars  give  different  explanations.  Hua  Weifen synthesized  these  definitions  and  roughly  divided  them  into  the  following  four  types: ability  theory,  environment  theory,  responsibility  theory  and  complex  theory.  (Hua Weifen 2002) The main representatives of ability theory are Holec and Bergen. Holec considers that  autonomous  learning  ability  is  a  kind  of  ability  that  students  have  which  is responsible for their own learning, but the ability is not a kind of natural ability, it is a kind  of  ability  that  can  be  acquired  only  by  natural  ways  or  specialized  systemic learning.  He  emphasizes  that  autonomous  learning  must  have  two  necessary preconditions: above all, the learners have the ability and are willing to be responsible for  their &nb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。