An Overview of Autonomous Learning and Reflections on EFL Teaching

This paper mainly focuses on the development of autonomous learning worldwide and its reflections on English teachingin China. Autonomous learning, which is beneficial to one’s lifelong journey, is the ability to take responsibility for one’s learning.The final goal of education is to cultivate students with autonomous learning skills. As for EFL teachers, three steps are as followed.Firstly, EFL teachers need to be trained to learn autonomously. Secondly, EFL teachers should construct some online autonomouslearning platforms. Thirdly, EFL teachers need to motivate learners to listen and watch more about English to arouse students’ in-terests in the target language.