早在上个世纪80年代,国外专家就曾提出成功的语言学习者应该具有自主学习的意识和能力。自主学习的方法近年来也在国内流行起来,但是大多数研究都是针对高校全日制大学生的,对于成人学习者自主学习能力的培养方面的研究很少。本文针对高校成人英语学习者的特点,对成人英语学习自己学习能力培养的途径和方法作了具体的介绍和分析。 As early as the 1980s, foreign experts had suggested that successful language learners should have the awareness and ability to learn independently. The method of self-directed learning has also become popular in China in recent years, but most of the studies are aimed at college full-time undergraduate students, and there are few studies on the training of adult learners’ autonomous learning ability. This paper aims at the characteristics of adult English learners in colleges and universities, and gives a detailed introduction and analysis of the ways and methods of training adult learners’ own learning ability.