Ruimeng Zhang. A study of Chinese undergraduate students attitudes toward learning an online English course at a private university in Beijing. Master's Degree(Bilingual Education). Rangsit University Library. : Rangsit University, 2022.
A study of Chinese undergraduate students attitudes toward learning an online English course at a private university in Beijing
Abstract:
The study investigated Chinese undergraduate students' attitudes towards
online learning in an English course in affective, behavioral and cognitive aspects on
the hypothesis that they would possess positive attitudes as well as impact of Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Chinese cultural values on their positive attitudes.
The subjects were Chinese students at a private university in Beijing selected through
stratified random sampling, and 380 of them completed a questionnaire constructed
based on the research framework, and 18 of them voluntarily participated in in-depth
interviews to provide qualitative data. IBM SPSS Statistics 24 and NVivo 11 were used
to analyze quantitative and qualitative data, respectively.
The quantitative results revealed that the students had positive attitudes
towards online learning in the English course at a high level. MOOC features and
Chinese cultural values were found to influence their positive attitudes at a high level.
The qualitative findings supported the hypotheses that the students preferred studying
English on asynchronous and synchronous platforms, which provided them with their
own learning space, non-face-to-face communication with the lecturer, and a cultural
sense of face keeping, concurrently allowing them to learn online English actively.
Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, a supplemented finding, indicated an extraneous
variable that influenced their positive attitudes. Replicated studies in different contexts
were recommended for future research.