1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

literature review：

nowadays,the term “autonomous learning ability” is quite widely discussed in the fieldof language acquisition. in recent years, scholars from home and abroad havedevoted themselves to studying the correlation between "autonomouslearning ability" and other factors such as "second languageacquisition", "self-efficacy" and " academic achievement".in the past, the definition and characteristics of autonomous learning abilitywere discussed by experts like holec(1981) and zizzerman(1989). to be morespecific, the term "autonomous learning ability" was first introducedby henri holec in his masterpiece autonomy of foreign language learning. hedefined "autonomous learning ability" as the ability to takeresponsibility for one’s study in the learning process. from then on, thenumber of researches studying "autonomous learning ability" keeps onincreasing. till the late 1980s, several significant achievements had beenachieved by western scholars. our domestic researches on autonomous learningability, however, were not carried out until the 1990s. but a lot ofachievements have also been made by experts and scholars in the past fifteenyears. for the time being, there are a great number of domestic researchstudies relating to the autonomous learning ability, such as the empirical oneswritten by li heng(2016), xu jingfen(2012amp;2014).

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

contents
introduction
chapter one theoretical bases for autonomouslearning ability
1.1 background of autonomous learningability
1.2 definition of autonomous learning ability
1.3 theoretical bases for autonomous learning ability
chapter two autonomouslearning ability and its importance
2.1 the necessity of developing autonomous learning ability
2.2 factors affecting autonomous learning ability
chapter three an empirical study on english-french bilingual learners' autonomous learning ability 章标题的实词都要大写首字母
3.1 research methodology
3.2 subjects
3.3 instruments
3.4 data collection
3.5 results and analysis
3.6 summary of the research
3.7 interviews
chapter four implications and discussion
4.1 teacher's role in developing autonomouslearning ability
4.2 students' attitude towards autonomous learning ability
4.3 learning strategy training amp; autonomous learning ability
chapter five conclusion
5.1 summary of the study
5.2 limitations
bibliography
appendix

research purpose：

this paperattempts to find out how autonomous learning ability could affect the academicperformance of bilingual learners. in order to assess bilingual learners’ levelof autonomous learning ability, the author refers to the autonomous englishlearning scale(aels) which is based on three aspects, namely, self-managinglearning ability, psychology of autonomous learning and autonomous learningbehavior. after making some modifications to cater for the subject,questionnaires were distributed to senior students majoring in english and frenchin a key university in china. the students’ tem4 and tfs4 scores are also takenfor data collection. according to their tem4 and tfs4 scores, students aredivided into four groups. combining the results of questionnaires and theiracademic scores, significant differences in autonomous learning ability arefound among those four groups of students.

3. 研究计划与安排

before1st january : settlement of the title

before 1st march: submission of theoutline

before 15th april : submission of thefirst draft

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

[1] holec h. autonomy and foreign language learning [m].oxford:pergamon, 1981. (first published 1979, strasbourg: council of europe).

[2] little d. learner autonomy: definitions, issuesand problems [m].dublin:authentic, 1991.