英语学习是一种非母语的学习活动,学生在学习过程中主体意识的发挥程度将直接影响其学习效果,并影响到学生英语学习心理的健康发展。因此,老师在教学过程中通过各种教学手段来激发学生的自主意识是非常重要的,教师应从学生的身心发展特点以及中学英语教学的现状出发, English learning is a kind of non-native learning activities. The extent to which students play a leading role in the learning process will directly affect their learning effectiveness and affect the healthy development of students’ English learning psychology. Therefore, it is very important for teachers to arouse the students ’self-awareness through various teaching methods in the teaching process. Teachers should start from the characteristics of students’ physical and mental development as well as the current situation of middle school English teaching,