This document discusses a study on developing learner autonomy through strategy training in an ESL classroom. The study aims to develop learner autonomy by training students in learning strategies, investigate the effects of strategy training on autonomy, and illustrate how strategy training helps ESL students gain autonomy. A mixed methods approach will be used, collecting data from questionnaires, classroom observations, interviews, and student journals/contracts from two ESL classes of 42 students at an urban school in Shah Alam, Malaysia.