Metacognitive strategies are regarded as advanced strategies in all the learning strategies.This study focuses on the application of metacognitive strategies in English listening in the web-based self-access learning ...Metacognitive strategies are regarded as advanced strategies in all the learning strategies.This study focuses on the application of metacognitive strategies in English listening in the web-based self-access learning environment(WSLE) and tries to provide some references for those students and teachers in the vocational colleges.展开更多
Accompanying the arrival of new technological and network ear, SACs (self-access centers) become the most widely adopted mode spreading in China with a large quantity of universities joining to follow the fashion. B...Accompanying the arrival of new technological and network ear, SACs (self-access centers) become the most widely adopted mode spreading in China with a large quantity of universities joining to follow the fashion. But whether the SACs in China can fully fulfill the purpose, to what extend can learners gain benefits to develop autonomy, and what are the possible ways for improvement are quite necessary to investigate since there starts to emerge various problems during the implementation of SACs. This paper aims to analyze the prevalent establishment of SACs in China in order to find out the reasons for prevalence, the current implementing mode, the degree of effectiveness on developing learner autonomy, especially potential problems and causes, and finally put forward some suggestions pedagogical implications for improving.展开更多
This paper mainly focuses on university-level learners' autonomy in computer-assisted self-access English learning centers through exploring the self-access center in Chongqing University from three aspects: the gen...This paper mainly focuses on university-level learners' autonomy in computer-assisted self-access English learning centers through exploring the self-access center in Chongqing University from three aspects: the general survey, the function and the problems of the self-access center.展开更多
Learner autonomy and attribution impact English language acquisition. Learners should be encouraged to take the responsibility for their success or failure, and achievement or underperformance in the acquisition of En...Learner autonomy and attribution impact English language acquisition. Learners should be encouraged to take the responsibility for their success or failure, and achievement or underperformance in the acquisition of English as an L2 (second language). A paradigm shift can be visible on the part of teachers and students of English only when they are metamorphosed voluntarily into classroom facilitators and autonomous learners with changed duties and responsibilities. As facilitators, teachers closely monitor learners' attributions to their success/failure in English language courses. "Attribution" means "how learners learn about themselves and order uncertain environments". Teachers are very often unaware of learner attributions; so it becomes essential for them to increase their awareness of learner attributions so that they can become facilitators. Interaction is the only medium for acquisition of English in the classroom, and teachers can play the role of a catalyst only when they allow students to become leamers with autonomy and right kind of learner attributions. Autonomy implies accountability. Very often, learner attributions clash with teacher attributions. As long as there is a clash, teachers can never claim themselves as facilitators of learning. This paper identifies the attributions of Indian learners of English, and studies if they clash with those of teachers. It also finds out the means of minimizing the negative and undesirable attributions of both facilitators and learners. Two standardized research questionnaires were developed and administered among students and teachers to identify the attributions, and to detect the desirability and feasibility of learner autonomy in the Indian context.展开更多
文摘Metacognitive strategies are regarded as advanced strategies in all the learning strategies.This study focuses on the application of metacognitive strategies in English listening in the web-based self-access learning environment(WSLE) and tries to provide some references for those students and teachers in the vocational colleges.
文摘Accompanying the arrival of new technological and network ear, SACs (self-access centers) become the most widely adopted mode spreading in China with a large quantity of universities joining to follow the fashion. But whether the SACs in China can fully fulfill the purpose, to what extend can learners gain benefits to develop autonomy, and what are the possible ways for improvement are quite necessary to investigate since there starts to emerge various problems during the implementation of SACs. This paper aims to analyze the prevalent establishment of SACs in China in order to find out the reasons for prevalence, the current implementing mode, the degree of effectiveness on developing learner autonomy, especially potential problems and causes, and finally put forward some suggestions pedagogical implications for improving.
文摘This paper mainly focuses on university-level learners' autonomy in computer-assisted self-access English learning centers through exploring the self-access center in Chongqing University from three aspects: the general survey, the function and the problems of the self-access center.
文摘Learner autonomy and attribution impact English language acquisition. Learners should be encouraged to take the responsibility for their success or failure, and achievement or underperformance in the acquisition of English as an L2 (second language). A paradigm shift can be visible on the part of teachers and students of English only when they are metamorphosed voluntarily into classroom facilitators and autonomous learners with changed duties and responsibilities. As facilitators, teachers closely monitor learners' attributions to their success/failure in English language courses. "Attribution" means "how learners learn about themselves and order uncertain environments". Teachers are very often unaware of learner attributions; so it becomes essential for them to increase their awareness of learner attributions so that they can become facilitators. Interaction is the only medium for acquisition of English in the classroom, and teachers can play the role of a catalyst only when they allow students to become leamers with autonomy and right kind of learner attributions. Autonomy implies accountability. Very often, learner attributions clash with teacher attributions. As long as there is a clash, teachers can never claim themselves as facilitators of learning. This paper identifies the attributions of Indian learners of English, and studies if they clash with those of teachers. It also finds out the means of minimizing the negative and undesirable attributions of both facilitators and learners. Two standardized research questionnaires were developed and administered among students and teachers to identify the attributions, and to detect the desirability and feasibility of learner autonomy in the Indian context.