TY - CHAP
T1 - Using a Virtual Learning Environment to promote autonomous language learning for Chinese students
AU - Jordan, Eoin
AU - Coyle, Mark
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - This chapter examines a semester-long Moodle-based programme of monitored quizzes designed to encourage first-year Chinese students at an English medium university in China to engage in English language self-study and autonomous learning. Usage statistics and questionnaire data were collected and analysed in order to investigate overall quiz participation rates, usage patterns across the semester, and the extent to which the programme affected students’ attitudes towards self-study. The results indicated that participation rates in the quizzes were high, although activity on the programme pages did decline as the semester progressed. Students also reported via the questionnaire that the programme had helped them learn how to organise their own self-study. However, statistics from Moodle revealed that many participants were not taking the quizzes on a regular, weekly basis, as had been intended, suggesting that the programme may have only been partially successful in fostering autonomous study skills.
AB - This chapter examines a semester-long Moodle-based programme of monitored quizzes designed to encourage first-year Chinese students at an English medium university in China to engage in English language self-study and autonomous learning. Usage statistics and questionnaire data were collected and analysed in order to investigate overall quiz participation rates, usage patterns across the semester, and the extent to which the programme affected students’ attitudes towards self-study. The results indicated that participation rates in the quizzes were high, although activity on the programme pages did decline as the semester progressed. Students also reported via the questionnaire that the programme had helped them learn how to organise their own self-study. However, statistics from Moodle revealed that many participants were not taking the quizzes on a regular, weekly basis, as had been intended, suggesting that the programme may have only been partially successful in fostering autonomous study skills.
UR - https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2821-2
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/book/computer-assisted-foreign-language-teaching/69859
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-4666-2821-2.ch009
DO - 10.4018/978-1-4666-2821-2.ch009
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781466628212
SP - 140
EP - 158
BT - Computer-assisted foreign language teaching and learning
A2 - Zou, Bin
A2 - Xing, Minjie
A2 - Wang, Yuping
A2 - Sun, Mingyu
A2 - Xiang, Catherine H.
PB - IGI Global
CY - Hershey, PA
ER -