新时期,教育理念的核心取向就是树立人终身学习的意识,培养人终身学习的能力。英语是一门国际通用语言,英语学习是非常有意义的。因此,在中学英语教学中,培养学生的自主学习能力是英语教学中的一项重要任务。传统的教学模式中,学生往往处于被动的学习状态,过于服从教师和依赖书本,缺乏自主学习的意识和能力。在新课改取得一定成果的今天,初中英语教师在转变教学理念、方式的同时,更应注重培养学生的自主学习能力。一、培养学生的自学意识1 In the new era, the core orientation of education philosophy is to establish the awareness of lifelong learning and cultivate the ability of lifelong learning. English is an international language and English learning is very meaningful. Therefore, in middle school English teaching, cultivating students’ autonomous learning ability is an important task in English teaching. In the traditional teaching mode, students tend to be in a passive state of learning, obey teachers and rely on books, lack of awareness and ability to learn independently. In the new curriculum reform to achieve some results today, junior high school English teachers in the transformation of teaching philosophy, methods, but also should focus on cultivating students’ ability to learn independently. First, develop students’ self-learning consciousness