Title :
A Study of the Effect of Self-access Center on Non-English Major Students´ Listening Ability
Author :
Xu, Zhihua ; Cui, Guangying
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Foreign Languages, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
This paper tries to probe into the effect of the Self-access Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology on improving non-English major college studentspsila listening ability employing many concepts of self-assess language learning, a way of autonomous learning. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are used to analyze the results. While the studentspsila listening ability has been improved greatly through learning in the center under the guidance of their teacher, some limitations are also found and suggestions given based on the research results.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; linguistics; autonomous learning; nonenglish major student listening ability; qualitative research; quantitative research; self-access center; self-assess language learning; Application software; Computer networks; Education; Educational institutions; Learning systems; Materials science and technology; Materials testing; Natural languages; Probes; Writing; effect; listening ability; self-access center; self-access language learning;
Conference_Titel :
Web Mining and Web-based Application, 2009. WMWA '09. Second Pacific-Asia Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3646-0
DOI :
10.1109/WMWA.2009.36