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Direct linkLi Gao – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Reading is one of the crucial aspects of the learning process. The learning efficiency depends on the motivation and involvement of students. The paper aims to determine whether the developed online course enhances student motivation and engagement in contemporary American literature. For this purpose, questionnaires were used. The sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Online Courses, Learner Engagement
Yeting Hu; Chuanzhi Fang; Xin He; Jinhua Wu – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
This study addresses the problems in traditional English literature teaching methods for Chinese English majors, proposing a new teaching approach based on smart education concepts to enhance learning effectiveness. An evaluation of a semester-long reform in teaching methods is conducted using a quantitative methodology. The findings reveal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Literature, Learning Analytics, Outcomes of Education
Xiaomei Sun – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Despite the difficulty of defining young adult literature (YAL), the benefits of it have been well recognised for adolescent learners. With the aim of exploring pedagogical approaches to L2 literature, this study reports on a YAL reading programme carried out in a secondary EFL classroom in China. To gain both teacher and student perspectives,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), English Literature
Zhang, Huaqing; Luo, Shaoqian – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: Against the backdrop of China's curriculum reform, this paper explores how a Chinese lesson study (CLS) of English literature instruction in a senior high school promotes the teacher participant's professional development (PD) in teacher beliefs and emotions, teaching contents, teaching approaches and learner outcomes.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, English Literature, High School Teachers, Faculty Development
Download full textHall, Geoff – Research-publishing.net, 2020
New directions in language learning and teaching are evident today. Students bring transnational, multicultural, multilingual, and digitally mediated experiences and identities into classrooms still sometimes too much modelled on outdated one-language-one-culture-one nation ideologies. Literature's value in these new circumstances is to challenge…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Shi, Dan; Irwin, Derek; Du, Ping – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The present study aims to explore an embodied approach to students' deep learning; specifically, how deep learning is interactively achieved through teachers' languaging dynamics and multimodal representations in interactive lecturing in L2 higher education (HE) contexts. The purpose is to understand how an instructor's embodied and multimodal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication, Student Participation
Li, Huiyin – English Language Teaching, 2017
This action research was conducted to investigate the efficacy of networking, an adjusted cooperative learning method employed in an English literature class for non-English majors in China. Questionnaire was administered online anonymously to college students after a 14-week cooperative learning in literature class in a Chinese university, aiming…
Descriptors: English Literature, Cooperative Learning, Action Research, Social Networks
Junmei, Jiang – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2017
Oscar Wilde is one of the most hilarious playwrights in the history of English literature. And 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is his masterpiece. With Wilde's humorous and witty language as the starting point and aided by the concordancing software WORDSMITH TOOLS, a detailed analysis was carried out on this comedy from lexical level and…
Descriptors: Drama, Computational Linguistics, English Literature, Teaching Methods
Dai, Guiyu; Liu, Yang; Cui, Shanmeng – English Language Teaching, 2018
This paper uses Edgar Dale's Audio-visual Learning Theory and Jean Piaget's Constructionist Learning Theory as the theoretical framework to conduct two control experimental tests and a questionnaire research to investigate students' impression and expectations toward WeChat public account based mobile learning mode as well as its validity,…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Control Groups, Learning Theories
Jie, Zou – Online Submission, 2007
This paper identifies some problems Chinese universities have when they offer English literature as a compulsory course to advanced level English majors. One constructive approach is discussed, and some suggestions on improving literature teaching are put forward.
Descriptors: English Literature, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
De Mille, Barbara M. – ADE Bulletin, 1982
Recounts an American teacher's experience of teaching English at a university in China and includes advice to others considering a similar teaching experience. (AEA)
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Grove, Neal, Ed. – 1986
The teaching of English in the People's Republic of China has received much attention in recent years. The two papers included here deal with the teaching of the English language and English and American literature to Chinese students. The first, a summary of a questionnaire survey, "Why Bother about Culture in English Language…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment, Cultural Exchange, English for Special Purposes
Grove, Neal, Ed. – 1986
Two articles address teaching English in the Peoples Republic of China. In "Why Bother About Culture in English Language Teaching?," Hu Wenzhong attempts to determine opinions about the importance of awareness of cultural traits through a study of 36 English-speaking teachers at Chinese institutions and 64 Chinese students who had…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
