This paper explores how to implement effective strategy training for part-time Chinese adult English learners in a tertiary FLT (Foreign Language Teaching) classroom. Through a study of threx~ semesters during which...This paper explores how to implement effective strategy training for part-time Chinese adult English learners in a tertiary FLT (Foreign Language Teaching) classroom. Through a study of threx~ semesters during which six sessions of learner training workshops and constant, integrated task-based instruction were carried out, empirical evidence was collected via the instrument of questionnaires, interviews, learners' regular written reports, and the findings indicate that: (1) The students reported a statistically significant increase of the overaU average frequency of language strategy use over all SILL (The Strategy Inventory for Language Learning) items with 2.95 at the beginning and 3.61 at the end; and (2) Well-organized, explicit, and discrete leaner training workshops combined with frequent, explicit, and integrated task-based strategy instruction are an effective and helpful way to improve learners' awareness, selection, and frequency of strategy use, which can further foster learner autonomy.展开更多
Adult English Education in China is making a good progress. But in some places, it is developing very unevenly. The author makes use of this paper to find the problems and to analyze the causes, then to make some sugg...Adult English Education in China is making a good progress. But in some places, it is developing very unevenly. The author makes use of this paper to find the problems and to analyze the causes, then to make some suggestions on how to solve the problems by characteristics of the adult learners.展开更多
Adult English learners have their own unique characteristics. This research adopts a questionnaire consisting of 9 dimensions to explore their English learning motivations, which turn out to be mainly instrumental one...Adult English learners have their own unique characteristics. This research adopts a questionnaire consisting of 9 dimensions to explore their English learning motivations, which turn out to be mainly instrumental ones. And the author has postulated suggestions about adult English teaching.展开更多
随着计算机辅助语言学习——CALL(computer-assisted language learning)和基于网络的外语教学——NBLT(network-based language teaching)理论的发展,如何利用多媒体网络技术来改革传统的英语教学模式,培养学生的自主学习能力成为新世...随着计算机辅助语言学习——CALL(computer-assisted language learning)和基于网络的外语教学——NBLT(network-based language teaching)理论的发展,如何利用多媒体网络技术来改革传统的英语教学模式,培养学生的自主学习能力成为新世纪大学英语教学改革的根本任务之一。文章从目前我国成人英语学习的现状和所存在的问题出发,依据建构主义学习理论,探讨如何利用网络技术和资源的优势来培养成人英语学习者的自主学习能力。展开更多
文摘This paper explores how to implement effective strategy training for part-time Chinese adult English learners in a tertiary FLT (Foreign Language Teaching) classroom. Through a study of threx~ semesters during which six sessions of learner training workshops and constant, integrated task-based instruction were carried out, empirical evidence was collected via the instrument of questionnaires, interviews, learners' regular written reports, and the findings indicate that: (1) The students reported a statistically significant increase of the overaU average frequency of language strategy use over all SILL (The Strategy Inventory for Language Learning) items with 2.95 at the beginning and 3.61 at the end; and (2) Well-organized, explicit, and discrete leaner training workshops combined with frequent, explicit, and integrated task-based strategy instruction are an effective and helpful way to improve learners' awareness, selection, and frequency of strategy use, which can further foster learner autonomy.
文摘Adult English Education in China is making a good progress. But in some places, it is developing very unevenly. The author makes use of this paper to find the problems and to analyze the causes, then to make some suggestions on how to solve the problems by characteristics of the adult learners.
文摘Adult English learners have their own unique characteristics. This research adopts a questionnaire consisting of 9 dimensions to explore their English learning motivations, which turn out to be mainly instrumental ones. And the author has postulated suggestions about adult English teaching.
文摘随着计算机辅助语言学习——CALL(computer-assisted language learning)和基于网络的外语教学——NBLT(network-based language teaching)理论的发展,如何利用多媒体网络技术来改革传统的英语教学模式,培养学生的自主学习能力成为新世纪大学英语教学改革的根本任务之一。文章从目前我国成人英语学习的现状和所存在的问题出发,依据建构主义学习理论,探讨如何利用网络技术和资源的优势来培养成人英语学习者的自主学习能力。