诺尔斯成人教育学的核心是尊重成人学习者的自主性,他就成人学习特征提出的五大前提假设有益于英语教师的课堂教学,从而对英语教师的授课能力也提出明确要求,要教师转变角色,充分挖掘学习者的学习能力。 The core of Knowles adult education is to respect the autonomy of adult learners. The five major assumptions he put forward on the characteristics of adult learning are beneficial to the English teachers’ classroom teaching, which also puts forward explicit requirements on the teaching ability of English teachers, , Fully tap learners’ learning ability.