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Jung, Insung; Seongyoun, Hong – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Research indicates that distance education (DE) students regard learner support systems as the key element in quality provision. This study sought to identify the key concerns of Asian DE students regarding support provision in different types of DE and dual-mode providers and formulate a student support model which took account of gender issues.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Asians, Student Attitudes, Online Surveys
Yu, Kai; Martin, Andrew J. – Educational Psychology, 2014
Prior research has shown personal best (PB) goals to be significantly related to students' motivation, engagement and achievement. However, research thus far has investigated PB goals only among Western samples and it is unclear to what extent PB goals hold academic merit in the Asian context. It is also unclear whether PB goals explain variance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Middle School Students
Bi, Xuefei – Learning Environments Research, 2015
This study involved whether psychosocial aspects of English classroom environments had associations with the English learning motivation types of Chinese tertiary-level English majors based on a case study of approximate 1,000 English majors in their first 2 years at one of the key universities located in South China. Canonical correlation…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
Mok, Ka Ho; Han, Xiao – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
In the past few decades, the internationalisation of higher education has become an increasingly popular trend across different parts of the globe. The fierce global competition and the aggravating unemployment rate, coupled with low teaching and research quality revealed by universities in mainland China, have inevitably compelled a growing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Study Abroad, Higher Education
Long, Chunmei; Ming, Zhu; Chen, Liping – English Language Teaching, 2013
Motivation plays an important role in foreign language learning. Learning motivation is to promote and guide and maintain learning activities which have been conducted an internal strength or internal mechanism. Learning motivation once formed, the student will use an active learning attitude to learn, and express a keen interest in learning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cheng, Rebecca Wing-yi; Lam, Shui-fong – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2013
The motivational effects of mastery goals and performance goals have been widely documented in previous research on achievement motivation. However, recent studies have increasingly indicated a need to include social goals so as to gain a more comprehensive understanding of achievement motivation. The purpose of the present research was to examine…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Achievement Need, Grade 7
Zhu, Mingjing; Urhahne, Detlef – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2015
Numerous studies have been conducted on the accuracy of teacher judgement in different educational areas such as mathematics, language arts and reading. Teacher judgement of students' foreign-language achievement, however, has been rarely investigated. The study aimed to examine the accuracy of teacher judgement of students' foreign-language…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Grade 5, English (Second Language)
Zhu, Mingjing; Urhahne, Detlef – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
The present study examines the accuracy of teachers' judgements about students' motivation and emotions in English learning with two different rating methods. A sample of 480 sixth-grade Chinese students reported their academic self-concept, learning effort, enjoyment, and test anxiety via a questionnaire and were rated on these dimensions by…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Accuracy, Student Motivation, Psychological Patterns
Händel, Marion; Duan, Xiaoju; Sutherland, Margaret; Ziegler, Albert – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
Across several countries, science is often regarded as unpopular and a male-dominated domain. Furthermore, the number of students who are interested in science education or intend to work in the field of science is relatively low. This might be due to expectations adolescents hold towards science and successful scientists. The current…
Descriptors: Science Education, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Expectation
Wu, Qi – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2014
Mobility of mainland Chinese students across national borders has become common worldwide; however, the underlying reasons that motivate these students to pursue postgraduation abroad and why these factors are influential are not sufficiently studied. By analyzing the results of a case study performed at three British universities, we examine the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Asians, Graduate Study
Chen, Zhi-Hong – Computers & Education, 2012
Although different educational agents have been proposed to facilitate student learning, most of them operate from a "smart" (i.e., intelligent and autonomous) perspective. Recently, a so-called "non-smart" perspective is also attracting increasing interest, and is now regarded as a topic worthwhile of researching. To this end,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Caring, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Zhou, Ji; Urhahne, Detlef – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2013
Based on Weiner's attributional theory of intrapersonal motivation, the mediating effect of attributions between teacher judgment and student motivation was examined. In two studies, 144 German and 272 Chinese fourth-grade elementary school students were tested on their mathematical achievement, causal ascriptions for success and failure,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Student Motivation, Mathematics Tests, Attribution Theory
Liu, Xianghu – International Education Studies, 2014
Computer technology provides students with an opportunity to interact with native speakers in many different forums and therefore enables them to practise and develop their listening skills. Furthermore, video and audio have been developed for use in a wide range of classroom activities. With regards to listening skills in language learning, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chen, L.; Zhang, R.; Liu, C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2014
This study investigates second and foreign language (L2) learners' listening strategy use and factors that influence their strategy use in a Web-based computer assisted language learning (CALL) system. A strategy inventory, a factor questionnaire and a standardized listening test were used to collect data from a group of 82 Chinese students…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Listening, Influences
Kibelloh, Mboni; Bao, Yukun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
Career progression is a general concern of professional working mothers in China. The purpose of this paper is to report a qualitative study of Chinese professional working mothers that explored the perceptions of online Master's of Business Administration (MBA) programmes as a tool for career progression for working mothers balancing work and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Online Courses