Employing Information Technology to Develop Autonomous English Language Learning Strategies

Abstract

The deep-rooted passive learning habits formed by long-term traditional teaching methods obviously cannot adapt itself to the requirements of students’ learning autonomy in information era. Through questionnaires and interviews with the students and teachers about problems with the English learners’ autonomous learning strategies in the information age, the author has found out that the problems include their lack of management strategies of online learning, their unawareness of autonomous learning strategies, their lack of network cognitive strategies and their poor computer skills as well as their negative emotions. Based on these findings, the author has proposed employing information technology to develop autonomous learning strategies such as language skill learning strategies, vocabulary learning strategies and network skill training strategies.