自主学习在语言学习过程中起着至关重要的作用。教师在语言教学活动中应充分发挥学生的主体作用,培养学生的自主学习能力。英文报刊阅读是促进学生自主学习能力提高的一个重要手段。本文主旨是通过运用阅读英文报刊的手段,研究报刊阅读与学生自主学习能力之间的关系。 Autonomous learning plays a crucial role in the process of language learning. Teachers in language teaching activities should give full play to the main role of students to develop students’ self-learning ability. Reading newspapers and magazines in English is an important means to promote students’ self-learning ability. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between newspaper reading and students’ autonomous learning ability through the use of reading English newspapers and periodicals.