The shift of teacher-centered to students-centered in English language teaching demands learners to be capable to do a learning method transformation of being dependent into independent. In EFL classroom context, autonomy is viewed as a substantial behavior to conform the demand and achieve the assigned language learning outcomes. In a matter of fact, learners’ English proficiency should be considered to make sure that the concept of independent learning might be well-executed. This study aims to find out a correlation between freshmen’s autonomy in learning and their English proficiency. Two hundred and one students of 2018/2019 batch were be involved as the sample of this study. They were selected by using proportionate sampling method. Questionnaire was used to collect the data. The results were obtained through the descriptive and statistical analysis, which aimed to find out the correlation between learner autonomy and English proficiency. Furthermore, library study was done to portray additional information of the two variables. The implications of the findings of this study were discussed
