scholarly journals On the Relationship of Students' English Learning Beliefs and Learning Strategy in the University

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Zhen Zhou

The research conducts a questionnaire survey and interview on students' English learning beliefs and learning strategy in a particular college in Jiangxi province in order to have a better understanding of college students' English learning beliefs and learning strategy, and the results indicate that the learning beliefs of students is in a middle level, the mean of motivation expectation is the strongest, students overestimate learning difficulties, underestimate their own learning ability, and they have certain wrong beliefs on the understanding of the nature of learning; As for English learning strategy, students' using level is medium, compensation strategy is the most frequently used, and the least frequently used is the memory strategy and affective strategy. English learning beliefs and learning strategy are closely related; English learning beliefs and learning strategy are not correlated with English achievement respectively. Therefore, teachers should help students to establish correct learning beliefs, and pay attention to gender differences in English learning, enhance male students' self-confidence, encourage female students to enhance their confidence, and guide male students to use more memory strategy and social strategy in order to improve the quality of English teaching in normal universities. The purpose of this study is to better understand the English learning beliefs and learning strategy used by normal university students, and to provide some references for improving the quality of English teaching in universities.

Author(s):  
Xing Zhao

To improve the students’ individualized and autonomous learning ability in English teaching, a mobile English learning system is designed on the basis of adaptive algorithm. The students’ need for the adaptive mobile English teaching system is analyzed through researches on students and questionnaires. According to the needs analysis, the main functional modules of the adaptive mobile English learning system are designed, including the creation module, personalized learning module, evaluation and feedback module, and management module. Then, the improved XAHM (XML adaptive hypermedia model) is applied to the mobile English learning system. The three-layer architecture of the English mobile learning system is revised into four layers of composition layer, data layer, business logic layer and presentation layer. At the same time, more attention is diverted to the terminal and the situation. Finally, the system is tested. The test results showed that the mobile English learning system realized the self-adaptive and intelligent navigation of learning space in the course of teaching. It is concluded that the new adaptive algorithm had a good performance for college English learning.


2014 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 256-260
Author(s):  
Qing Yun Meng ◽  
Liang Li

With the continuing of new teaching reform, English teaching has been incorporated into the focus of teaching reform. English teaching has characteristic of wide application range, various teaching methods, flexible using multimedia etc.. Therefore, in the teaching process we take more abundant methods to raise the enthusiasm of students and improve the students' English learning ability. Combined with the multivariate regression variable analysis method, we use JSP network development tool to improve the English teaching evaluation system and obtain the English comprehensive evaluation platform under the multivariate influencing factors. In order to verify the validity and reliability of the system, we evaluate complaint strategies, explicit teaching and complaint explicit teaching, and obtain the results of the English learning ability, which provides a new method for the application of computer in English teaching.


Author(s):  
Yuehong Wei ◽  
Chungang Miao

In order to provide reference for postgraduate academic English teaching in China, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive survey in learning background and process before learners go to the graduate school. This study focuses on the academic English course for postgraduates in a key university of China, and the in-depth investigation was carried out from the aspects of students’ majors, graduation colleges, English learning foundation, learning attitudes, English learning and especially academic English learning experience, motivation and knowledge of academic English learning. The triangulation combining the quantitative method and qualitative method was used to analyze the research data. The results shows that the English learners have weak academic English foundation but strong English learning motivation and employ single English learning strategy. The learners reported the effective learning methods of academic English from two aspects: basic English learning skills and academic English learning ability. Accordingly, how to develop the teaching model, carry out the teaching process and define the teaching content are discussed in this research.


English communication is a problem faced by the human resources involved in the tourism activities in Desa Wisata Tista, Kerambitan Subdistrict, Tabanan Regency, Bali. However, there had been no research that identified English problems. Then, this research was done to (1) identify the problem faced by the human resources involved in tourism activities in Desa Wisata Tista, Kerambitan Subdistrict, Tabanan Regency, Bali and (2) finding out the proper and suitable English learning strategies to improve the English mastery of the human resources involved in the tourism activities in Desa Wisata Tista, Kerambitan Subdistrict, Tabanan Regency, Bali. The data used in this research were gained through interviews, observation, and literature studies. The data were analyzed qualitatively. The results of the analysis reveal that (1) the numbers of the human resources who can speak English is limited, (2) the lack of speaking skills using English, (3) the lack of English vocabulary they have, and (4) low level of self-confidence to communicate in English. These problems can be overcome by implementing several strategies, namely (1) memory strategy, (2) cognitive strategy, (3) affective strategy and (4) social strategy. Based on the identification, the managers can conduct English course for the community. Keywords: English Communication, English Learning Strategies, English Communication Problems, English for Tourism Workers


Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Luo

In college English teaching, educators often use multimedia information technology to carry out teaching activities and present the corresponding curriculum content in detail. Based on two semesters of analysis and investigation, this paper presents an empirical study on multimedia teaching in two courses of a non-English major in one Chinese college. The results show that multimedia teaching technology can effectively enhance college students' interest in English learning, stimulate their enthusiasm, enhance the interaction between teachers and students, and cultivate their autonomous learning ability. The research suggests that colleges and universities should strengthen the hardware support and software facilities of multimedia-assisted teaching to promote the significant improvement of students' language ability.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 664
Author(s):  
Yuanfei Yao

In A Brief Analysis of Yuxi Dialect, Fu Chang makes a detailed explanation on dialects’ features and the value of its study. In The General Received Pronunciation of British English by Fengtong Chang, the author dealt with reasons why London English became standard English, and also elaborated on consonants and vowels in British English. Up to today no one has ever made a contrast between the two languages and further diminished the interference from dialect in English pronunciation learning of the Yuxi students. This paper is designed to make a contrast between the two languages: Yuxi dialect in Zhoucheng and Received Pronunciation; as well as the differences between their consonants and vowels respectively can be achieved to rectify the pronunciations’ deviation in English learning. It is intended to improve English teaching quality of Yuxi dialect speakers and enhance the pronunciation standardization of English there.


Author(s):  
Min Li ◽  
He Lv

In this paper, MOOC-based O2O Teaching System for college English cross - cultural knowledge is introduced to improve the 3P model of traditional English teaching through data analysis of the combined and optimized fitness function and social evolution operator. First, through analyzing and summarizing a large number of domestic and foreign literatures and research results, the construction scheme of MOOC-based O2O Teaching System for college English cross-cultural knowledge was established. Moreover, this paper studies the construction mode of MOOC-based O2O Teaching System for college English cross-cultural knowledge and finally establishes the teaching system, and concludes that colleges and universities should pay attention to the cultural difference in English learning, and emphasis on the cultivation of college student cross-cultural knowledge. The specific path is online education combined with offline education for common development, thereby enhancing college students’ English learning ability and practical ability. To sum up, in college English teaching, we should pay attention to the education of English cross-cultural knowledge, O2O mode for cross-cultural knowledge can be used to combine 3P teaching mode and online education mode in MOOC environment, promoting innovation and development of educational methods under the guidance of the constructivism, so as to improve students’ English proficiency.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Huang Chen

<p>Learning motivation and learning strategies are the important factors that affect English learning, which has an important impact on the students' learning English. In the 1970s, Chinese scholars mainly studied the transfer to students' autonomous learning, which resulted in individual differences of learners, such as age, gender, motivation, strategy, <em>etc</em>. However, learning motivation and strategy are the most important issues, which need our research. Based on the real data, this paper makes SPSS software statistics, which can analyze the correlation between learning motivation and learning strategy. Through the study of English learning motivation and Strategies of vocational college students, vocational college can better improve the quality of English teaching.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Hua Huang

English teaching in higher vocational education has always been one of the difficulties. Due to the weak learning foundation of students, insufficient learning ability, and some problems in teaching methods, the quality of higher vocational English teaching has never been effectively improved. This article analyzes the current problems in English classroom education in higher vocational education from the perspective of education ecology, and implements some effective teaching reform measures for these problems, in order to effectively improve the quality of higher vocational English teaching and enhance students' comprehensive ability.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Hongyan Zhao

<p>College English, as a compulsory course in college, requires students to put a lot of energy into it. While providing students with high-quality teachers, colleges and universities should also create a good English learning environment for students. According to each student's learning habits and English foundation, an English learning platform should be built for students to meet the needs of different students as much as possible, that is, college English teaching resource database. The establishment of English teaching resource base should be based on information and network technology and popularized through campus network. At present, online English teaching resources on campus are insufficient, relevant equipment is idle, and teaching resources are seriously wasted, which cannot stimulate students' interest in learning English and cultivate their self-learning ability. This paper discusses the application and improvement of the existing college English resource base.</p>


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