本文根据新课程改革的要求与农村初中学生英语学习的现状,着重分析和探讨了如何培养初中学生英语自主学习和自学能力的问题。指出培养初中生英语自主学习与自学能力必须从明确目标,培养兴趣;逐步放手,让学生能自主学习:立足课堂教学,加强课外辅导等几方面入手。 Based on the requirements of the new curriculum reform and the status quo of English learning among junior middle school students in rural areas, this paper focuses on analyzing and discussing how to cultivate junior high school students’ English self-learning and self-learning ability. It points out that cultivating junior high school students’ English self-learning and self-learning ability must begin with clarifying goals and cultivating interests; gradually letting go and students can learn by themselves: based on classroom teaching and tutoring after-school tutoring.