Motivation has long been considered as a significant factor, remarkably contributing to the success of second language acquisition. The current study focuses on investigating socio-psychological orientations Vietnamese-speaking English learners. A survey was administered 74 non-English majoring undergraduates in four IELTS preparation courses at pre-intermediate and intermediate levels. questio...

This study investigated the effect of the Live DVD self-learning system on English learning movitvation of students of a Taiwanese technological university. Modeled on on the ARCS motivation model of Keller (1987), this study validated the ARCS model, examined the effects of Majors and English Levels on motivation, and tested the proposed structural model invovling the effect of the ARCS model ...

In this study, the author employed a Web 2.0 tool to promote student online collaborative learning. Fifty-five college students majoring in information technology and management participated in the two-week study, conducted in a programming language course. Qualitative research methodology was utilized to collect data. The results show that the technological tool motivated students to engage in...

The present mixed-method study aims to find out the status quo of critical thinking ability of university non-English majors by investigating 224 non-English majors from a university in China (105 male and 119 female students, 114 art and 110 science majors, 109 freshmen and 115 sophomores were included respectively) through questionnaires and interviews. Specifically, it compares critical thin...

This study aims to investigate the current conditions of pronunciation teaching and learning in a local university through a questionnaire. The subjects majoring in English Education agree that accuracy rather than intelligibility should be adopted as the criterion for English teachers. Though the importance of pronunciation is well recognized by the subjects, instruction lags far behind the le...

PURPOSE Physician assistants (PAs) are nationally certified and state-licensed medical professionals who practice medicine on healthcare teams with physicians and other providers. Despite the increasing popularity and utility of the profession, knowledge of the role of PAs remains scarce among many segments of the population. The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge and percepti...