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Zhao, Ke; Du, Xiangyun; Tan, Huiyu – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
In light of increased cross-border movements of students to pursue their academic studies, university educators in many contexts are concerned about a lack of interactive engagement among students from different cultural backgrounds because of the use of L2 in international programmes. This study explores how students develop engagement in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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Song, Donglei; Tavares, Adriano; Pinto, Sandro; Xu, Hao – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Over the past few decades, many researchers have tested course designs that may better engage students in developing countries, accommodate for Millennials' desires to learn and teach at will, and teach students the skills they need for their first jobs. The vision of this paper for a web design course seeks to address these issues for engineering…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Games, Computer Science Education, Electronic Learning
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Jiang, Anne Li; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Language and Education, 2019
To promote English learning is an alleged benefit of implementing English-medium-instruction (EMI). However, English learning is supposed to occur incidentally in most EMI contexts. From the linguistic-ecological perspective, incidental language learning is premised on two conditions: linguistic inputs are perceived by learners as affordances,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Language Teachers, College Faculty
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Bear, George G.; Yang, Chunyan; Chen, Dandan; He, Xianyou; Xie, Jia-Shu; Huang, Xishan – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine differences between American and Chinese students in their perceptions of school climate and engagement in school, and in the relation between school climate and engagement. Method: Confirmatory factor analyses were used to support the factor structure and measurement invariance of the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Environment, Learner Engagement
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Liu, Zhi; Zhang, Wenjing; Cheng, Hercy N. H.; Sun, Jianwen; Liu, Sannyuya – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2018
As an overt expression of internal mental processes, discourses have become one main data source for the research of interactive learning. To deeply explore behavioral regularities among interactions, this article firstly adopts the content analysis method to summarize students' engagement patterns within a course forum in a small private online…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement
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Artieda, Gemma; Clements, Bindi – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Wall Street English has built online activities that allow students to record phrases and receive word-level Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) driven pronunciation feedback. Students in language centres in China, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, and Italy (N=2,867) used ASR-Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) activities, and some (N=482) completed a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Xu, Sheng; Wang, Jie; Lee, Gabrielle T.; Luke, Nicole – Journal of Special Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether using self-monitoring with guided goal setting was effective in increasing academic engagement for a student with autism who frequently displayed disruptive behaviors in an inclusive classroom in China. A 9-year-old male student with autism participated in this study. A changing criterion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Management, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Leach, Linda – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Student engagement has become increasingly important in higher education in recent years. Influenced internationally by government drivers to improve student outcomes, many countries and institutions have participated in surveys such as the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and its progeny, the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Learner Engagement, Higher Education, College Freshmen
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Zhang, Zhe; Hu, Wenhua; McNamara, Olwen – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2015
Student engagement in higher education has attracted worldwide attention in recent years because of its strong correlation with positive outcomes of student learning and also, increasingly, because of its influence on a consumer-oriented global education market. Such issues come into sharp focus in the case of China, currently the largest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, Universities
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Zhang, Hong – English Language Teaching, 2020
With effective learning as its core principle, Production-oriented Approach (POA) was developed to address the problems of English classroom instruction in China, such as text-centeredness, the separation of learning and using and "dumb English". This study applied POA to college English classroom instruction in order to examine its…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Sangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hee Jin Bang; Kirsten Olander; Erin Lenihan – CALICO Journal, 2020
This study examines the English language learning outcomes of young Chinese L1 children when using a digital self-guided learning tool, ABCmouse "English Language Learning Academy" (ABCmouse ELL), created by Age of Learning, Inc. and designed based on principles of second language research. In a pretest, posttest study design, experiment…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
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Milojicic, Višnja – CATESOL Journal, 2019
The following is a qualitative study on Chinese international English language learners' (ELLs') experiences in an English as a second language (ESL) classroom. Set at Sunset University (pseudonym used), a public university in Northern California, the study uses ethnographic field methods to gauge information about an ESL teacher's and Chinese…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Expectation
Yang, Lei – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to explore the effect of Chinese students' social integration to persistence at American community colleges. Tinto's theory of integration was utilized as the framework to guide the research process. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and researcher memos. Participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Social Integration, Academic Persistence
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Yin, Hongbiao; Ke, Zheng – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
This study attempts to bridge two current lines of research on the quality of undergraduate education, i.e. students' course experiences and engagement. Defining student engagement from a psychological perspective, this study explores the relationships between students' course experiences and their motivation and engagement with a sample of 882…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Undergraduate Students, Educational Quality, Questionnaires
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