Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
The focus of this study is teachers’ autonomy support to students. Autonomy support refers to someone’s supportive behaviors on other people’s autonomy. It is a concept from Self-Determination Theory (SDT), which was proposed by Deci and Ryan in almost forty years ago. SDT is a theory belongs to psychology, more precisely, positive psychology. The definition of autonomy support is keeping updating with time going on. But the main connotation is invariable. The authorities offer a series of supportive behaviors to fulfill receivers’ autonomy needs and to improve their intrinsic motivation. Researches on autonomy support have a history about thirty years. And now it is still a research focus in western countries. But in China, relative researches are just spring up. Autonomy support, as a psychology concept，英语论文题目，relates to many field in people’s life. Researchers have done some relevant studies in the context of school, family, clinical areas, workplace and so on. A series of empirical studies have shown that autonomy support has positive effects in different areas of life. Among these studies, the studies in the context of school occupy an important position in this field. And autonomy support in the context of school mainly refers to teachers’ autonomy-supportive behaviors on their students. On the one hand, a large majority of the previous researches on teachers’ autonomy-supportive behaviors study the relationship between teachers’ autonomy-supportive behaviors and other factors, such as students’ motivation, academic emotions, engagement and so on. Most of the studies are conducted from the perspective of students. On the other hand, during initial period, most of the researches in the context of school are conducted in PE class. Recent years, some researchers start to turn to other subjects, for example, mathematics. But teachers’ autonomy-supportive behaviors in English class have not been systematically studied. As we all know, English is a very important subject in senior high school.
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1.2 Significance of the Study
Based on the background information, the starting point of this study is to improve English teachers’ skill of stimulating students’ autonomous learning. The ultimate goal is to improve senior high school students’ autonomy in learning English, so as to improve their autonomous learning in other subjects. So this study has great practical significance. On the one hand, this study will help teachers to recognize how to develop students' ability of autonomous lea，英语论文 |
