Title: Autonomy-Supportive Foreign Language Teaching: Connotation, Practice and Prospects
Authors: Xiaoquan Pan, Huijuan Shao
Volume: 9
Issue: 12
Pages: 25-31
Publication Date: 2025/12/28
Abstract:
Autonomy-supportive foreign language teaching, oriented towards stimulating intrinsic motivation and cultivating core competencies, transforms students' language learning experience from passive memorization to active meaning construction through the restructuring of the teaching environment and teacher-student relationships. This study systematically elaborates its theoretical core grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), emphasizing the fundamental role of fulfilling basic psychological needs for sustaining learning. It provides an in-depth analysis of four key practical pathways, including creating supportive contexts and empowering the learning process, and illustrates specific operational scenarios with examples. Finally, by considering emerging technological trends like artificial intelligence and the ongoing digital transformation of education, it offers forward-looking reflections on future directions. This study identifies critical issues such as technology empowering personalized learning, the deep transformation of teacher roles, and balancing technological efficiency with humanistic care. It posits that constructing a "human-machine collaborative" dynamic equilibrium ecosystem is the core pathway towards achieving high-quality development in foreign language education.