The Influence of Multi-assessment Model on the Motivation of Adults’ English Listening and Speaking Learning

Abstract

Due to the long time away from campus, the difficulty in ensuring study time, and poor psychological condition, adults have much difficulties in learning English. The study of adult English learning motivation helps to understand the main purpose of adult English learning, and then from the actual needs of students, to improve the strategies to stimulate adult English learning. Based on the adult English listening and speaking course, this paper takes the third-grade students from Beijing International Studies University (Continual Education Institute) as an example to establish a multi-assessment model of self-assessment, peer assessment and teacher assessment, along with interview and reflective journal to explore the influence of multi-assessment model upon adult English learning. The result has shown that under the multi-assessment model, the motivation of adults to learn English is gradually changed from external factors driving to internal factors driving, from personal development to intrinsic interest. That is, they changed from being forced to learn English gradually to autonomous learning. This study further broadens the scope of the participants of the multi-assessment model and offers suggestions for adult English education in China.