自主学习是一种新型的学习方式,是学生管理自己学习的能力。它能有效地提高学习的质量、水平和效率,提高学生的创新思维能力,更能为学生今后的生存发展与终身学习打好基础。本文简述了英语自主学习的重要性,并提倡在英语教学中,教师应当有计划、有步骤地引导和培养学生的英语自主学习能力。 Autonomous learning is a new type of learning, is the ability of students to manage their own learning. It can effectively improve the quality, level and efficiency of learning, improve students ’ability of creative thinking, and lay the foundation for students’ survival and development and lifelong learning in the future. This article outlines the importance of autonomous learning in English and advocates that in English teaching, teachers should guide and train students’ self-learning ability in English systematically and step by step.