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I I PAGE PAGE VI Acknowledgements Upon the completion of my dissertation, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who have provided me with considerable support and invaluable help in making this dissertation a reality. First and foremost, I would like to give my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Rao Zhenhui, for sharing his insightful ideas and invaluable guidance in this dissertation. Professor Rao shows great patience in reading, polishing and commenting on my thesis, which is essential to its completion. Moreover, during my three years postgraduate study, he is a pharos in the mist, guide me forward. Without his strict and insightful supervision, this dissertation could never have been produced. Im also grateful to all the professors who have given me inspiring lectures and led me to the field of applied linguistics, such as Professor Liu Shulin, Associate Professor Lin Yuewu, Associate Professor Tang Xiongying and Associate Professor Huang hui. Of my friends and classmates, Wen Jiejuan and Wu Huahua should be acknowledged here. Thanks go to Wen for her patient help in the data analysis as well as her encouragement and timely advice. I am equally indebted to kind-hearted classmate Wu Huahua for her help with giving out and collecting the questionnaires and her 150 cooperative students. Last but not the least, I offer my special thanks to my dearest parents for their understanding, care, and supervision. Without their persistent help and encouragement, I would not have overcome so many difficulties during the course of writing my thesis. Abstract Ever since the early 1980s, learner autonomy and promoting learner autonomy have taken on a growing importance in the field of foreign language education. Many researchers, both at home and abroad, have conducted a large number of researches on LA. However, of those survey studies, few of them have focused on the English majors’ learning autonomy in Teachers universities. Therefore, the p