数字时代农科研究生英语自主性学习能力调查与分析

A Survey on Agricultural Postgraduate Students' Autonomous English Learning Competence in Digital Era

网络与多媒体数字技术的发展对外语教育的影响日益凸显。通过问卷和访谈对农科研究生在数字环境下英语自主学习情况进行了调查,结果显示,农科研究生具有一定的自主学习意识,但是自主学习能力较为薄弱,缺乏合理的引导,对教师的依赖性较大。因此,有必要对学习者进行自主学习能力的培训,依托现代化多媒体网络技术,促进学习者自主能力的提升。

The developments of digital technologies, including the Internet and the multimedia technology, havebrought dramatic changes to the society, and so to foreign language education. A survey and interviews were conducted with 687 agricultural postgraduate students on their autonomous learning competence. With the focuses on the eight autonomous learning skills in the digital era, namely, aims and plans, process monitoring, result evaluation, resources and methods, teacher＇ s role, peer＇ s role, and importance attached to the Internet and multimedia technologies in learning, our survey found that learners are well aware of the importance of autonomous learning, but lack skills in practice, and that they rely heavily on teachers＇ instruction, which hinders the autonomous learning competence. Thus it is necessary to train learners on autonomous learning skills with the help of modem technologies.