大学生英语课堂学习投入动态发展研究

An investigation into EFL learners'engagement dynamics in the college English classroom

本研究采用高密度重复测量法对华中地区一所部属高校一个大学英语班级31名学生在一学期每一90分钟课堂的学习投入进行了跟踪调查。研究发现,90分钟课内学生学习投入呈动态变化特征,主要表现出小幅波动、高位稳定、较大波动、低位稳定和中位稳定五种类型。大部分学生适应性地呈现小幅波动和高位稳定的状态,但受外界干扰会偶尔出现较大波动/低位稳定/中位稳定的变异;极少量学生出现较高频次的较大波动/低位稳定/中位稳定的变异,其英语学习初始状态或英语学习目标/身份构建的模糊性是主要原因。

This paper reports a longitudinal study on Chinese college EFL learners'English classroom engagement dynamics by adopting the high-density repeated measurement approach.An intact class of 31 students in a comprehensive university in central China participate in the semester-long study.It is found that within the 90 minutes of each class,the students show dy-namic fluctuations in terms of behavioral,cognitive and emotional engagement intensity.Overall,their engagement develop-ment can be classified into five types,namely,small-scale fluctuations,stably high level of engagement,large-scale fluctua-tions,stably low level of engagement,and stably medium level of engagement.For most of the students,despite the occasional variations of large-scale fluctuations or stably low/medium level of engagement due to the disturbance of external factors,a state of small-scale fluctuations or stably high level of engagement emerges along with their co-adaptations in the college Eng-lish class.A very small number of students have comparatively high-frequency variations of large-scale fluctuations or stably low/medium level of engagement,which might be attributed to their initial state of English learning(i.e.a very poor English foundation)or the ambiguous perception of English learning goals and English-learner identity construction at college.