A Study of Emotions and Attitudes of Non-English Majors toward Online Writing Assessment System

Abstract

This paper takes non-English majors as the research participants to explore the characteristics of their emotions and attitudes, the influencing factors, their coping strategies, and the impact of the above aspects on their English writing learning during the online English writing assessment. Through conducting semi-structured interviews, the study found that: first, when non-English majors use online English writing assessment, their emotions and attitudes are affected by multiple subjective and objective factors, and are mainly positive; Second, the strategies used by non-English majors are mostly aimed at the lexical and grammatical errors in the text, and cover the skills of English writing; Third, the above aspects have played a certain role in promoting students’ English learning and improving their English learning and application ability.