Abstract
While there have been many articles published in the area of self-regulated learning, there is a
need to have a research article that solely emphasizes on how to put self-regulated learning
theory into practice. In order to help teachers incorporate self-regulated learning theory into their
classroom teaching and students to do so into their learning, the present author outlines four
topics in this paper: what self-regulated learning is, the conceptual framework in self-regulation,
the characteristics of self-regulated learners, and how teachers can assistant learners to put selfregulated
learning into practice. There are two objectives to this article. One is to help teachers
incorporate self-regulated learning theory into their classroom teaching. The other is to help
students better understand what self-regulated learning theory is and how they can put it into
practice daily to enhance their learning.