This study aims to explore how college students' positive interdependence in English learning is correlated with their autonomous learning ability.It reveals that positive interdependence and its two forms,i.e.,goal interdependence and resource interdependence,are positively correlated with autonomous learning ability respectively.Between the two forms of positive interdependence,goal interdependence plays a more important role in developing autonomous learning ability.It also indicates that there are statistically significant differences between the high and low positive goal and resource int...