学习者的自我学习自20世纪50年代起,就是教学界及心理界的一个重要研究方向。为了适应这个快速发展变化的世界,终身学习,结合自身学习特点的自主学习无疑将成为今后学习的一种趋势。基于此,结合高职英语教学的特点,分析了培养高职学生英语自主学习能力的必要性,并探索培养高职学生英语自主学习能力的有效方法。 Since the 1950s, learners’ self-learning has become an important research direction in teaching and psychology. In order to adapt to this rapidly changing world, autonomous learning with lifelong learning and learning characteristics will undoubtedly become a trend of learning in the future. Based on this, combined with the characteristics of English teaching in higher vocational colleges, this paper analyzes the necessity of cultivating English self-learning ability of vocational students and explores the effective ways to cultivate English self-learning ability of vocational students.