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Dai, Fan – World Englishes, 2010
This paper presents the background, purpose and components of a creative writing course conducted in the Department of English at Sun Yat-sen University as part of the reform in the teaching of English in China. It explains and demonstrates the different components of the course and argues, drawing on evidence from students' work and reflections,…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Badib, Ayesha Abdullah Najieb; Guru, Subhatra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
The Malaysian government is rigorously drawing up strategies to increase the already existing 60,000 foreign students currently studying in the country (The Star, 2009). With the influx of more foreign students and with English as the medium of instruction in local higher education, it is felt that a study to investigate international students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Tuan, Luu Trong – English Language Teaching, 2010
"Frequently accepted as being the last language skill to be acquired for native speakers of the language as well as for foreign/second language learners" (Hamp-Lyons and Heasly, 2006: 2), English writing, for a number of EFL learners, appears to be challenging. This paper sought to investigate if learners can grow out of the writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Journal Writing, Teaching Methods
Zhao, Ling; Lu, Yaobin; Wang, Bin; Huang, Wayne – Computers & Education, 2011
From a self-determination theory perspective, this study tries to investigate how perceived autonomy support, perceived relatedness and competence affect high school students' intrinsic motivations (enjoyment and curiosity) to use the Internet, and the related outcomes of the motivation. Surveys are distributed to seven junior and ten senior high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy
Fan, Weiqiao; Zhang, Li-Fang; Watkins, David – Educational Psychology, 2010
The study examined the incremental validity of thinking styles in predicting academic achievement after controlling for personality and achievement motivation in the hypermedia-based learning environment. Seventy-two Chinese college students from Shanghai, the People's Republic of China, took part in this instructional experiment. The…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Personality Traits, Essay Tests, Academic Achievement
Woodrow, Lindy – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article describes a research project into the self-efficacy and anxiety of college English students at four universities in China. A total of 738 participants completed a questionnaire measuring self-efficacy and anxiety in writing in English. This was immediately followed by a writing task. The questionnaire used a seven point Likert type…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Questionnaires
Li, Peipei; Pan, Guirong – English Language Teaching, 2009
The survey conducted in Qingdao Agricultural University reveals the relationship between motivation and achievement as follows: instrumental motivation influences both high achievers and low achiever; while high achievers have greater integrative motivation than lower ones; Interest plays an extremely important role in study and high achievers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Duan, Yanqing; He, Qile; Feng, Weizhe; Li, Daoliang; Fu, Zetian – Computers & Education, 2010
This research aims to examine, from an innovation adoption perspective, Chinese students' intention of taking up e-learning degrees. A survey of Chinese students was conducted to reveal their perceptions concerning innovation attributes relevant to e-learning and their intentions of taking e-learning programmes provided by UK universities. Given…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Intention, Innovation, Foreign Countries
Vinther, Jane – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
The framework of this study is cooperation between students of English at a Chinese university and their counterparts at a Danish university, i.e. neither group of students are native speakers of English. The theoretical framework for the study is Vygotsky's sociocultural approach combined with the work by a number of researchers on the link…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Constructivism (Learning), Interpersonal Relationship
Chen, Li-Mei; Zhang, Ruiming – Current Issues in Education, 2010
This study investigated effectiveness of Web-based CALL on listening comprehension. Both students' academic performance and attitudes were examined. T-tests were used to analyze the results of students' academic performance. Descriptive statistics interpreted students' attitudes toward this learning. Students' participation was also recorded.…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Student Attitudes, Internet, Computer Uses in Education
Li, Baomin – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: E-learning has been applied in pre-service teacher training for many years. The purpose of this paper is to present the use of e-learning in a pre-service teacher training course and discuss the relevant issues involved. Design/methodology/approach: The article reviews literature related to instruction design, and e-learning concepts and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Chen, Ang; Liu, Xinlan – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2009
The expectancy-value motivation theory postulates that motivation can be achieved when perceived values in an activity override perceived cost of the activity derived from the effort of achieving. This study was designed to examine types of perceived cost in physical education and the extent to which the cost might affect motivation. Data about…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries, College Students
Xiao, Junhong – Distance Education, 2012
Teachers' influence on students' learning motivation is a well-researched topic. Nevertheless, the majority of such studies are situated in the conventional learning context despite the rapid growth of distance language learning. This study set out to investigate tutors' influence on students' learning motivation in the Chinese distance language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Distance Education, Teacher Characteristics
Gao, Fen – English Language Teaching, 2011
In this study the author tries to assess the effects of Theme-based Oral Approach (TOA) on the oral English proficiency of non-English majors as well as students' leaning motives and interests resulted from the approach in EFL class of China. The study follows the quantitative and qualitative method in light of questionnaire, interview, class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Wang, Naixia; Morgan, W. John – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
This article examines an important and yet neglected aspect of the relationship between higher education and the labour market in contemporary China. It does this through a detailed case study of student motivations, quality and status in adult higher education (AHE) in the city of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. This is a region which has seen major…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Role of Education, Labor Market