One of important aims of curriculum reform of primary education is the transformation of learning approaches. While there
are still arguments over these basic questions in the education research fields, such as what is learning approach and how to change the
learning approaches? By an overview of most important research literature in recent 10 years at home and abroad, this article points out
the similarities and differences in the concepts, and the multiple influential factors of learning approach, and also the complex
relationship between learning approaches and scholastic achievements. In the end, this article points out the concept of learning
approach should be viewed as a selective and multiple one.