Paper Info
Title
Low-Achieving Students' Perceptions of Online Language Learning: A Case of English Proficiency Threshold.
Abstract
This study aims at exploring how low-achieving EFL learners perceive and make use of the instructional web site to fulfill part of the requirements for a college degree. Participants were college students who did not pass the threshold of the required level of English proficiency set by the college. Online Tutorial English was a one-semester course offered for the above-mentioned students; they did not come to the class for onsite instruction except for the weeks before the mid-term and final exam. Students were provided with weekly reading articles and were required to do assignments online. At the end of the semester, students were asked to fill out a questionnaire and some students volunteered for an interview. The researchers analyzed the qualitative data, using Grounded Theory Method. Findings of the study showed that low-achieving EFL learners could not really be motivated to learn and that the primary aim for those students to learn English as a foreign language was to pass the course and get their college diploma.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-07482-5_24
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
English proficiency threshold,online language learning,low-achieving language learners,remedial English course
Computer science,Language acquisition,Mathematics education,Pedagogy,Perception,Web site
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8523
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ai-Ling Wang1114.20
Yuh-Chang Lin201.01
Shu-Fen Chang300.68