《大学英语课程教学要求》指出:各高等学校应充分利用多媒体和网络技术,采用新的教学模式改进原来的以教师讲授为主的单一课堂教学模式。新的教学模式应以现代信息技术,特别是网络技术为支撑,使英语教学不受时间和地点的限制,朝着个性化学习、自主式学习方向发展。因此,在教学中,教师积极有效地传授学习方法,教会学生主动学习比教会学生被动接受知识和会解习题更为重要。本文主要分析了在网络环境下如何培养学生自主学习的能力,从而发挥他们的潜能,使他们自主学习,自愿学习。 “College English Curriculum Teaching Requirements” points out: All colleges and universities should make full use of multimedia and network technology, and adopt new teaching modes to improve the original single classroom teaching mode mainly based on teachers’ teaching. The new teaching mode should be supported by modern information technology, especially network technology, so as to make English teaching free from the limitation of time and place and develop toward individualized learning and autonomous learning. Therefore, in teaching, teachers actively and effectively teach learning methods, teach students to learn than students in the church to accept the knowledge of passive and will solve the problem is more important. This article mainly analyzes how to cultivate the students’ autonomous learning ability in the network environment so that they can develop their potentials and enable them to study independently and voluntarily.