随着我国教育由应试教育向素质教育的转变,外语教学的目的也越来越突出培养学生的外语交际能力。初中学生虽然在教师的帮助下掌握了一定的外语知识,但在真正要应用外语交际或创造性运用外语的时候学生往往却表现出无话可说或不知道该怎么做;即使能说一点也只停留在简单的句型操作阶段,远远达不到预期的教学目标,这种情况最根本的原因是学生不懂得如何学习英语。本文试从对学生学习方法的指导和自学能力的培养方面对其进行初步探索,以期对初中生英语自主学习有所指导。 With the change from exam-oriented education to quality-oriented education in our country, the purpose of foreign language teaching is more and more prominent to cultivate students’ foreign language communicative competence. Although junior middle school students acquire a certain knowledge of foreign languages ​​with the help of teachers, students often have nothing to say or do not know when they really want to use foreign languages ​​or use foreign languages ​​creatively. Even if they can only say that Staying at the stage of simple sentence operation is far from the expected teaching goal. The most fundamental reason for this is that students do not know how to learn English. This paper tries to probe into the students ’learning methods and self-learning ability to explore it, with a view to guiding junior high school students’ autonomous English learning.