This paper employs questionnaire to investigate the autonomous learning ability of undergraduate students in Wuhan Textile University. The result shows that there is a big gap in autonomous learning ability among students. The whole level of the autonomous learning ability needs to be improved. Students don't know how to manage their autonomous learning efficiently. There is little cooperation among students’ learning. Enough hours outside the classes for English learning can’t be ensured. Therefore, this paper suggests that English teachers should raise students’ autonomous learning awareness, cultivate students’ learning strategies, advocate cooperative learning, reinforce the communication between teachers and students, broaden the second classes and strengthen the cooperation among different universities close to each other so as to improve the communication between different universities.