Language teachers have a new role: helping their students develop autonomy in learning. How can language teachers aid their learners in becoming autonomous? How do learning strategies contribute to learner autonomy? How can the promoting of autonomy be incorporated into the teaching and learning of second languages? This article reports an attempt to teach students how to learn and how to become autonomous in their own language learning by combining learning strategy instruction with the content course of second language acquisition. It describes how the course requirement — the language learning project — is helpful in guiding students through the process of self-assessment, goal-setting, planning, monitoring and evaluating their own language learning. Students' attitudes and reactions toward the semester-long strategy training and their evaluation of strategy development are reported, along with suggestions to help teachers succeed in such a process.