The Relationship between English Classroom and English Learning Burnout

Abstract

This paper is to explore the potential relationship between classroom surroundings and English learning burnout among college students and aims to answer the following three questions: 1) What are students’ perceptions of their college English classroom surroundings and what are the manifestations of their English learning burnout? 2) Is students’ perception of college English classroom surroundings related to English learning burnout? 3) Does there exist any significant differences in each dimension of English learning burnout among students with high, medium and low perception of classroom surroundings? In order to answer the above questions, the author adopted questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and classroom observations to collect data by investigating into non-English majors of Anqing Normal University in China. The data is then processed with the help of Excel and SPSS 20.0. The results indicate: 1) Students’ perception of college English classroom surroundings and their English learning burnout are both at medium level; 2) There exists negative correlation between the perception of college English classroom surroundings and English learning burnout; 3) There exists significant difference in all the three dimensions of English learning burnout between high and low perception groups.