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The role of learner autonomy and self‐regulated learning in distance education has received much attention. The application of these concepts impacts course design and, potentially, learner achievement. In the case of distance language learning, course designers must consider not only how to help learners gain communicative competence but also language learner strategies that support success. Although the concepts of autonomy and self‐regulated learning share some similarities, they have been variously defined and applied to distance education. Current research and discussion has not synthesized the ways in which these factors can be more fully utilized to improve distance education. Based on a critical review and synthesis of the literature on autonomy and self‐regulation, this article contributes a new model for distance language learning. The model provides guidance for course designers and assists instructors in supporting their students. 相似文献
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Junhong Xiao 《Open Learning》2013,28(2):145-159
Research into motivation in education mainly centres on students’ learning motivation. This article reports on an interview study of teacher motivation with the aim of investigating the effects of student-related factors and tutors’ personal factors on the motivation of language tutors in the distance learning context. Findings from the study indicate that external sources of influence include students’ engagement in learning English, motivation to learn English, progress made, foundation in English and appreciation of tutors’ teaching, while tutors’ internal factors are their self-efficacy in teaching, reflection and self-initiated professional development, interest in the profession of teaching English as well as their sense of achievement. Analysis of the data also suggests that more concrete measures are needed to counteract the demotivating effects from these two dimensions. Implications and suggestions are discussed with regard to enhancing tutor motivation more effectively. 相似文献
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Junhong Xiao 《Distance Education》2012,33(3):365-380
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 learning context. It attempted to gain a balanced picture of the issue under study by taking both student and tutor views into account. Findings from this study indicate that teaching competence, personal characteristics, subject matter expertise, and tutor–student relationship were four tutor-related factors which affected students’ learning motivation, reinforcing results of previous studies. Nevertheless, mismatches were found between students and tutors in relation to the influence of particular aspects of teaching competence, personal characteristics, and subject matter expertise. Implications from the study are considered in this article. 相似文献
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王平 《江西师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2009,42(5)
通过问卷调查,分析研究了远程英语学习者的学习策略。结果表明:远程学习者常用的英语学习策略有自我管理策略、记忆策略和语法策略等;许多成人学生在英语学习中不善于合理使用各种策略。建议在远程英语教学中注意培养学生运用策略的能力,重视面授辅导课。 相似文献
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Junhong Xiao 《Distance Education》2014,35(1):4-17
Learner agency plays a key role in self-regulated learning. Yet, there is a paucity of research into its role in the distance learning context. Using reflective narratives written by a distance learner of English in China, this longitudinal case study aims to investigate the ways in which learner agency mediates the language learning in the distance mode. Findings from the study suggest that agency has a major impact on learners’ self-efficacy, identity, motivation, and metacognition—four constructs which are instrumental in determining language learning success, in particular in the distance learning context. Analysis of the data indicates that positive changes in these four constructs, in turn, lead to further agentic engagement, hence forming a virtuous circle of mutual enhancement. Implications are discussed in relation to fostering distance learners’ goal awareness, enhancing their self-efficacy, maintaining their motivation, and encouraging metacognitive efforts. 相似文献
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Thai Distance English Learners and Learner Autonomy 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Alisa Vanijdee 《Open Learning》2013,28(1):75-84
The study reported here represents an attempt to explore learner autonomy in a distance education setting in Thailand. Autonomy is a key element in learning a language at a distance and is reflected in the number and quality of learning strategies students employ. Data for this study were collected using a questionnaire sent to students country-wide, ThinkAloud protocols and interviews. Using a number of criteria which emerged from the study, students were grouped into two kinds of language learner: self sufficient language learners, who were able to follow the course but displayed a limited degree of learner autonomy, and dynamic distance language learners, who were more proactive in their approach to learning. The outcomes from this study were used to draw conclusions about recommendations for future distance language course development and to develop theoretical work by the author relating to autonomous learning of languages at a distance 相似文献
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Wenting Jiang 《Distance Education》2017,38(1):84-105
More and more educational institutions are moving towards online distance learning. Although asynchronous online learning overcomes the constraints of time, place and pace, online distance learners feel isolated due to the lack of real-time communications. One possible solution for overcoming this sense of isolation is regulating student online behavior by assigning specific roles and protocols for participation to learners in order to stimulate online learning activities. This qualitative study explored the use of such a technique in a fully online class in order to find out how the interdependence of roles and role rotation support a sense of community among learners. Data was collected through observations, discussion archives, surveys, and interviews. The results indicate that interdependent roles and role rotation provide students diverse learning experiences and interdependence in different ways. Students’ tendency to depend on their classmates and to participate is enhanced when using the starter-wrapper with roles technique. 相似文献
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方霞 《天津职业院校联合学报》2006,8(6):35-38
Moore和Kearsley(1996)主张远程教育者应提供三种互动形式:1.学习者和学习内容之间的互动;2.学习者和学习指导员之间的互动;3.学习者相互之间的互动.根据互动学的二语习得理论和Kransen理论的一致可知充分理解的输入是二语习得的关键,互动有助于二语的习得和增强语言的流利程度.当然有效的信息输出对二语的习得也很重要. 相似文献
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本文对现代远程开放教育中成人非英语专业学生学习策略进行研究．其目的是归纳整理对成人英语学习行之有效的学习策略,并根据这些策略在教学实践中采用相应的教学手段、教学方法,建立适合成人特点的新的教学模式。 相似文献
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何黎金英越南 《云南师范大学学报(教育科学版)》2011,(5):75-83
文章根据Selinker所提出中介语运作的5个程序,描写越南人学习汉语的中介语表现。具体分析了越南学习者由于母语负迁移、对汉语规则的过度概括化、语言训练的转移等因素所生成的语法偏误。通过分析学习者的汉语学习策略和汉语交际策略发现汉越词能帮助越南学习者产生正迁移的同时也会造成负迁移。文章还通过个案分析证明了Selinker所提出的二语学习策略和二语交际策略的不同类型确实一直被学习者所使用。 相似文献
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Awanui Te Huia 《Journal of Language, Identity & Education》2017,16(5):299-312
Substantially less is known about the motivations of indigenous heritage language learners than the motivations of learners of colonial languages. This study explores the motivations of Māori indigenous New Zealanders and the identity-related motivations they have for learning their heritage language. Interviews with 19 Māori language learners revealed that identity was a central motivation for both initiating the task of language learning and sustaining the behaviour. Rather than applying intrinsic/extrinsic dichotomies to understand Māori motivations, a relational framework was articulated. Māori, who are described as relationally oriented, were commonly motivated to learn the language as a means of building relationships with others in their cultural ingroup. There were also expectations that Māori were able to perform cultural roles using the language. This study confirmed that the pressures on indigenous learners to maintain a language for cultural continuation are quite separate from the motivations of learners of colonial languages. 相似文献
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Many distance learning programmes include an element of face-to-face tuition. This paper reports on a research project concerned with various issues related to face-to-face tutorials in the Open University of Hong Kong's distance education system, including students' expectations of the benefits they will gain; their reasons for attending; the approaches they prefer; and their overall satisfaction with what tutors actually provide. Some comparisons are drawn between students in the university's different schools-and the overall findings are compared with those reported for distance learners in the West, in an effort to assess the impact of cultural context on student attitudes to tutorials. The research found that the Hong Kong students' attendance at tutorials was very high compared to that found in other similar studies, possibly reflecting Hong Kong's geographical compactness, but also possibly reflecting a preference for face-to-face meetings; that the students looked for specific guidance and support from tutors within a largely directive framework; that even where the format of the tutorial departed from the students' expectations, the students did not necessarily give the tutorial a low evaluation, provided that it was a fruitful experience; and that the cultural context within which a distance education system operates affects students' expectations and learning styles. 相似文献
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话语分析是被同一个语言交际圈中的成员所使用的语言检查手段。对外语老师来说，话语分析不仅仅是调查他们自己教学实践的研究方法，而且也是研究语言学习者之间交互作用的一种工具。本文讨论了话语分析和第二语言教学之间的相互关系，并指出语言学习者如何使用话语分析探究语言是什么的问题，以及如何应用话语分析在不同的语境中达成交际目的。本文还讨论了如何利用话语分析创建更准确的第二语言学习环境，从而鼓励学习者更有效地利用第二语言达到交际目的。 相似文献
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Despite the potential benefits of assignment feedback, learners often fail to use it effectively. This study examines the ways in which adult distance learners engage with written feedback on one of their assignments. Participants were 10 undergraduates studying Spanish at the Open University, UK. Their responses to feedback were elicited by means of student-generated screencast (Jing®) recordings in which students talked through the feedback written by their tutors. The recordings were analysed in terms of the students’ cognitive, affective and metacognitive responses to the tutors’ feedback. Results show that, while students do engage with tutor feedback and make active efforts to integrate it, they sometimes use ineffective strategies, especially when tutor and student make different assumptions about the role of feedback. The richness of the data obtained from the Feedback on feedback (F on F) method suggests that it has the potential to promote much needed feedback dialogue between students and tutors. 相似文献
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Laura Hills Anactoria Clarke Jonathan Hughes John Butcher Isobel Shelton Elaine McPherson 《Open Learning》2013,28(3):238-249
Ensuring the fairness of assessment is important in all areas of higher education. It is particularly so in distance education, where the communication around assessment and feedback is a principal method of supporting learning, and even more so when the students are at the entry point into higher education. This research explores the nature of the language used in explaining the purpose and process of assessment on an access programme at The Open University, UK, from the perspective of the module team, the tutors and the students. It takes a qualitative approach to examine the clarity and consistency of assessment tasks, assessment guidance and TMGs. Analysis revealed inconsistencies in the language used in relation to assessment, which has led to a revision of how assessment tasks and guidance are communicated to students and tutors. 相似文献
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This paper describes 3 language learning approaches common in many urban and rural Ojibwe communities, as well as the ideologies of endangerment that drive and sustain them. Drawing from collaborative language revitalization work with teachers, learners, and community leaders, we analyze some of the teaching and learning practices that lead to the common mismatch between language learner goals and expectations, on the one hand, and the outcomes of language learning, on the other. We outline how these 3 approaches to language learning relate to cultural identities and place-based notions of authenticity as well as to current findings in the field of second language acquisition. We then profile 2 speakers who have learned Ojibwe successfully as adults to illustrate how their success was possible largely because they were able to engage with the Ojibwe language in interactive ways that run counter to common language learning approaches. We suggest that for language revitalization efforts, and individual learners, to experience higher levels of success, greater attention needs to be paid to how ideologies of endangerment impact language learning approaches. 相似文献
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制约农村生源大学生外语学习成效的情感因素 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
单亚萍 《陕西教育学院学报》2008,24(3):95-98
学习动力、态度、自信心等情感成分在外语学习中具有不可低估的作用。参照以往该领域的研究成果及通过问卷调查,可以找出制约农村生源的高校学生英语学习成效的一些情感因素,从而为处理这些情感因素探寻对策,如树立城乡学生平等意识、融文化因素于外语教学及创造和谐的外语学习氛围等,最终达到培养学生积极情感,提高他们外语学习的成效。 相似文献
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远程英语学习者是一个特殊群体,研究他们的学习策略有现实指导意义。问卷调查显示,电大英语专业本科生已经逐渐适应从以教师为中心的教学向自主掌握学习过程的转变,能根据远程学习的特点和规律以及社会环境的变化,发挥自身潜在的优势,较好运用情感、社交、认知、元认知和补偿等学习策略弥补远程学习的不足,有较强学习责任感。调查也表明,要把策略培训作为教学的有机组成部分,有效提高学生运用策略的意识和水平。 相似文献
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王红丽 《黔南民族师范学院学报》2012,32(4):91-94
对大多数非英语专业本科生的英语学习调查表明:大多数持有积极的英语学习观念,但也有一小部分学生例外。相当一部分学生同意语言天赋论,对自己缺乏自信,不能很好地把握口语交流的机会以有效地提高英语交际能力,但具有较强学习动机。学习类型调查表明:大多数属于理智型,其次分别为综合、自然型。这意味着:英语教师必须根据具体情况,引入正确的学习观念,指导并对学生进行相应的策略训练,从而提高英语教与学的效率。 相似文献