一、引言在中国的外语教育中,英语教育是其中很重要的组成部分之一,培养富有创新精神和能力的人才是其改革的重要任务和目标。英语教育不仅要传递英语语言基础知识和训练英语运用基本技能,而且要培养学生独立思考、创新思维、开拓英语学习新天地的能力。培养学生英语创新思维是英语教学的重要目标之一。自主性学习是相对于“被动性学习”、“机械性学习”和“他主 I. INTRODUCTION English education is one of the most important components in foreign language education in China. It is an important task and goal for the reform to cultivate innovative and competent personnel. English education not only needs to pass on basic knowledge of English language and basic skills of training English, but also cultivate students’ ability of independent thinking, innovative thinking and new English learning. Cultivating students’ innovative thinking in English is one of the important goals of English teaching. Autonomous learning is relative to ”passive learning“, ”mechanical learning“ and ”his master