Author(s)

Wei Zhao^1,2

¹College of International Studies of Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
²School of Foreign Languages of Dali University, Dali, China.

In the context of foreign language classroom teaching, this study provides a specific overview of the self-regulated learning and language learning strategies as well as other relevant concepts and theories. The analysis focuses on guiding foreign language teachers in helping students to implement self-regulated learning strategies and motivations, adjust to their learning experience, and respond to the teaching process through the interest adjustment, then build self-regulated learning environment from a theoretical approach, expectations for enlightenment to the practices in foreign language teaching and learning. The construction of self-regulated learning environment based on foreign language classroom, represents a perspective for language teachers and learners, which is a new direction of foreign language education and has not been articulated hitherto.

Self-Regulated Learning, Learning Environment, Foreign Language Classroom, Teaching Paradigm

Zhao, W. (2016) Paradigm of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: A Perspective of Self-Regulated Learning Environment Construction. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 4, 167-177. doi: 10.4236/jss.2016.45020.