Enhance College Students Research Articles

Enhancing University Students’ Self-Perceived English Proficiency and Affective Factors through Co-Curricular English Program

Enhancing University Students’ Self-Perceived English Proficiency and Affective Factors through Co-Curricular English Program

Examining students’ behavioural engagement in lecture videos with and without embedded quizzes in an online course.

This study reports part of a larger study that explores three technologies – Padlet, Panopto videos and Google Docs – and their effectiveness in enhancing university students’ engagement in online learning. The current paper explores the role of interactive quizzes embedded in recorded lectures in enhancing student engagement in higher education focused on behaviour engagement. Panopto video analytics and a survey were used as a source of data. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data, including percentage and frequency. The analyses focused on 59 university students’ behavioural engagement in the recorded videos with and without embedded quizzes in relation to their video dropout, average viewing time, completion rate and frequency of viewing. The paper highlights the benefits of incorporating interactive quizzes within lecture videos, including increased motivation, engagement, and academic performance. However, this study also shows some interesting results on students’ behavioural engagement when it comes to learning online. Overall, findings suggest that the incorporation of quizzes in lecture videos can be an effective tool for increasing student engagement and improving learning outcomes in online courses. Implications for online course design and future research are discussed.

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Teaching Design in Enhancing College Students’ Innovation Ability: Taking the Traditional Dress Design Course as An Example

This paper combines the cultivation of innovation ability with the content of problem-based learning (PBL), analyzes the current situation of the traditional dress design course, discusses the problems existing in the cultivation of innovation ability of college and university traditional dress design, and searches for the strategies to improve students’ innovation ability based on PBL. This paper argues that PBL can provide assistance to the teaching design of traditional dress design courses, which is conducive to improving students’ innovation ability in traditional dress design and realizing the desired teaching effect.

The Effects of Academic Anxiety on College Students Learning of Spoken English

This paper examines the effects of academic anxiety on college students learning of spoken English. Academic anxiety can hinder students fluency, pronunciation accuracy, self-expression, and overall confidence in oral communication. The study identifies various factors that contribute to academic anxiety, including personal, external, socio-cultural, and psychological factors. It explores the negative consequences of academic anxiety on students spoken English learning outcomes. Coping mechanisms and strategies, such as creating a supportive learning environment, teaching stress management techniques, and promoting self-reflection and self-assessment, are proposed to address academic anxiety. The paper emphasizes the practical implications for educators, institutions, and policymakers, including teacher training, curriculum design, peer interaction, counseling services, and assessment practices. Implementing these recommendations can create a supportive and empowering learning environment, mitigating the impact of academic anxiety. The study concludes by highlighting the importance of recognizing and addressing academic anxiety to enhance college students spoken English skills and prepare them for success in a globalized world.

Cultivation of Core Competences of English Major Students under the Inter-discinplinary Guidance A Case Study of “The Survey of British and American Culture” Course

The newly issued National Standards by the Ministry of National Education for the Quality of Foreign Language and Literature Teaching (hereinafter referred to as the “National Standards”) clearly points out that the curriculum system of foreign language majors should emphasize the cultivation of competences and the construction of professional knowledge, especially the cultivation of cross-cultural, critical, and innovative abilities. Therefore, in order to enhance college students’ autonomous study ability and cross-cultural skills, this study, based on the concepts of content and language integration, aims to explore the way to combine Willis’ outline of procedure for task-based learning with the five principles of intercultural teaching, and utilize task-based teaching method, and rely on the course—“British and American Culture: A Course to Develop Critical Thinking from a cross-cultural perspective” to respectively consider the design of autonomous study worksheets for English majors before, during, and after class, so as to improve their autonomous learning ability, cultural critical thinking and intercultural communication skills. It will be helpful for the implementation of similar courses.

Determinants of College Students’ Online Fragmented Learning Effect: An Analysis of Teaching Courses on Scientific Research Software on the Bilibili Platform

In the era of mobile Internet, online fragmented learning has become one of the mainstream ways for college students to study independently. Analyzing the online fragmented learning effect (OFLE) has essential reference value for guiding the online learning behavior of college students and optimizing the allocation of online learning platform resources. It also provides sustainable solutions for enhancing college students’ online independent learning effect. For this paper, we took college students who have studied teaching courses on scientific research software (TCSRS) on Bilibili as our research subjects, constructed a theoretical model of college students’ OFLE based on the theory of online learning and fragmented learning, verified the model through using questionnaire data, and analyzed the determinants of college students’ OFLE and its mechanisms. Our results indicate the following: (1) Most college students spend a dispersed amount of time learning TCSRS, showing the characteristics of “fragmentation”. (2) Learning motivation (LM), self-efficacy (SE), and fragmented time utilization (FTU) have a significant positive effect on college students’ OFLE. (3) Knowledge fragmentation (KF) affects college students’ OFLE, but it is not significant. These dimensions provide a theoretical reference for quantitative research on the impact of college students’ OFLE. Finally, also in this paper, improvement countermeasures are proposed from the perspective of improving college students’ OFLE and ability.

일개 대학 간호대학생의 심리적 유연성 및 지연행동메타인지신념이 대학생활적응에 미치는 영향

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the factor of psychological flexibility, and procrastination of metacognition beliefs on college life adaptation among nursing college students. Methods A cross-sectional online survey was conducted involving 144 freshman and sophomore nursing college students from a university located in city K in March 2023. Data were analyzed using t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients and hierarchical regression analysis with SPSS/WIN version 29.0. Results College life adaptation of nursing students were significant positive correlation with psychological flexi-bility (r=.518, p<.001) and negative correlation with meta-cognition beliefs of procrastination (r=-.192, p=.021). Significant factors influencing nursing college students' college adaptation were school life satisfaction (β=.372, p<.001) and psychological flexibility (β=.443, p<.001), which explained 48.3% of the variance. Conclusions To enhance college students' adaptability, implement school-level strategies for greater satisfaction. Develop effective education, counseling for raising psychological flexibility, and stress-reduction interventions to improve their adjustment to college life.

Intention patterns predicting college students' volunteer service participation

Volunteer service activities of college students are crucial for universities to educate students on civic engagement. Education laws and scientific methods must be employed to enhance college students' willingness to volunteer and actively participate in volunteer service activities. Based on literature collection and collation, this study takes the theory of planned behaviour as the basic framework, includes the dimension of "cognition," designs the questionnaire, and discusses the relationship among the relevant factors that affect the volunteer service behaviour of college students. Cognition, defined as understanding volunteerism's personal and social benefits, positively predicted attitudes, norms, and control, but not directly behaviour. A sample survey of Chinese college students and a correlation analysis of effective questionnaires demonstrate that college students' volunteer service attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behaviour control positively impact volunteer service behaviour intention, which can predict volunteer service behaviour. College students' cognition of volunteer service significantly and positively impacts their attitude toward it, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control but does not directly impact their volunteer service behaviour. Thus, the following aspects must be improved: guiding attitude, creating atmosphere, improving mechanisms, innovating projects, strengthening cognition, and implementing practical education. The findings of this study can help colleges and universities to clarify the impact mechanism of college students' volunteer service cognition on their volunteer service behaviour. It contributes new evidence on optimising the student environment to engage youth in building community well.

提升大学英语听说能力的智慧化学习系统构建及其应用研究

This study seeks to investigate the development and implementation of an intelligent learning system designed to enhance college students’ English listening and speaking skills. By integrating theories of language acquisition, cognitive psychology, and educational technology research, a smart college English audio-visual and oral learning system has been created. This system allows students to assess their listening and speaking capabilities, identify areas for improvement through automated evaluation, receive real-time feedback, and access personalized learning recommendations. Empirical research findings indicate that intelligent learning systems can significantly enhance students’ listening and speaking skills, leading to improved pronunciation accuracy, fluency, and grammatical correctness.

대학생들의 셀프리더십, 회복탄력성, 비판적 사고성향이 대학생활적응에 미치는 영향

Objectives This study investigated university students’ self-leadership, resilience, critical thinking disposition, adjustment to college, correlations among them, and the effects of their self-leadership, resilience, and critical thinking disposition on adjustment to college.
 Methods The research was conducted with 221 undergraduate students attending a 4-year university in Korea. The participating students’ levels of self-leadership, resilience, critical thinking disposition, and adjustment to college were assessed. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 to conduct descriptive statistics for all variables, correlation analysis among them and among their sub-components, and step-wise multiple regression analysis to examine the influence on the dependent variable.
 Results First, the results of the descriptive statistical analysis revealed that among self-leadership, resilience, critical thinking disposition, and adjustment to college, the students’ resilience level was the highest. Second, the highest significant positive correlations were found between the students' resilience and critical thinking dis-position, as well as between self-leadership and resilience. Third, resilience emerged as the most influential vari-able on the students’ adjustment to college, and among the sub-components, a sense of control and positivity were found to have significant impacts.
 Conclusions Based on the research findings, it is suggested that to enhance university students' adjustment to college, universities should implement measures at the institutional level to increase students' resilience with par-ticular attention to enhance the ability to control their actions and think positively.

A Systematic Review of Interventions Improving University Students’ EFL Writing Competence

Writing competence in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is a critical skill for university students, as it affects their academic and career success. However, many EFL university students are not capable of writing English compositions and face considerable challenges in developing their writing skills. To address these challenges, various interventions have been proposed, yet few studies have integrated them in recent years. This study employed PRISMA guidelines to analyze forty-two empirical studies on interventions improving university students’ EFL writing competence based on peer-reviewed journals published between 2012 and 2022. The review identified the types of interventions, evaluated their effectiveness in improving students' writing competence, and provided recommendations for teachers and future researchers. Findings showed that teaching instruction, feedback, cooperative learning and modern technology were applied into teaching activities, which improved university students’ EFL writing competence to various degrees. Teachers are required to select suitable interventions or combine different interventions to help university students to effectively solve problems in English writing. Furthermore, the findings will make a contribution to understanding recent interventions in EFL writing instruction in university settings, providing a reference for educators to develop evidence-based practices to enhance university students’ EFL writing competence.

Enhancing university students’ academic self-efficacy: the roles of leisure experience, nostalgia, and positive emotions

ABSTRACT Although leisure participation has been recognized as an essential life domain that contributes to university students’ lives and education, only a paucity of research has focused on the effects of past leisure experiences on education among university students. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to explore the role of post-leisure experiences and their impact on education among university students. Specifically, the relationships among memorable leisure experience, nostalgia, positive emotions, and academic self-efficacy were examined. Results of a survey administered to 389 students at a university in Singapore revealed that memorable leisure experience had positive effects on nostalgia and positive emotions towards leisure activities. Furthermore, nostalgia had a positive influence on positive emotions towards favourite leisure activities, which affected university students’ academic self-efficacy. The findings showed that memorable leisure experience played significant roles in influencing university students’ academic self-efficacy. The findings provide empirical support to the existing body of research on nostalgia.

Study on the Positive Influence of High School Sports on College Students' Psychology

The purpose of this study is to explore the positive influence of college sports on college students' psychology. Through relevant theories and research reviews, we found that college sports can enhance college students' self-esteem and self-confidence, reduce their stress and anxiety, and develop their sense of teamwork. Finally, we summarise the study and make suggestions for further research. This study has important theoretical and practical significance for understanding the impact of college sports on college students' psychology.

Investigating Teaching Literature Based-Communication in Enhancing University Students’ Intercultural Awareness: Students’ Attitudes & Teachers’ Challenges

Investigating Teaching Literature Based-Communication in Enhancing University Students’ Intercultural Awareness: Students’ Attitudes & Teachers’ Challenges

Gender differences in college students’ achievement in teaching English as a foreign language using inquiry-based learning

Gender becomes one of the essential factors that are always considered in the various relationships among variables in the educational field. The purpose of this study is to examine the involvement of gender differences in the enhancement of college students’ English achievement using inquiry-based learning. A quasi-experimental two-way factorial design among groups was applied to carry out this study. 300 Indonesian EFL (English for Foreign Language) college students were randomly allocated to one of two groups. The experimental group (N = 150) consisted of 85 females and 65 males who were given inquiry-based learning. Meanwhile, the control group (N = 150) contained 75 males and 75 females who were given direct learning. An achievement English test containing 50 multiple choice problems was administered to them before and after their involvement. The data was analyzed using some tests such as the independent sample t-test, paired sample t-test and factorial between two groups ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) and SPSS v.29 was used to promote these analyses. The results of this recent study showed that the intervention of inquiry-based learning has a significant and positive effect on enhancing college students’ EFL achievement. Moreover, there is significant evidence that gender differences are involved in the enhancement of college students’ English achievement in inquiry-based learning. There is a statistically significant relationship between gender and inquiry-based learning. This study implies that inquiry-based learning can be applied to enhance students’ achievement in Indonesian EFL colleges.

The Influence of Science and Technology Innovation Perception Education on Entrepreneurial Intention of College Students

The current employment situation is grim, and the era of science and technology is conducive to college students providing new opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship. The inclusion of entrepreneurship education in college courses can open up more employment opportunities for students. Therefore, the educational environment is crucial for students’ employment choices. This paper conducted a questionnaire survey on 582 college students from nine universities in Fujian Province, China, to develop a relationship model between science and technology innovation perception, education, and entrepreneurial intention. The results show that: 1. Science and technology innovation perception education has been proven to have a direct positive influence on college students’ entrepreneurial intention; 2. Undergraduates work value orientation (including career orientation, mission orientation, and livelihood orientation) significantly affects entrepreneurial self-efficacy and thus entrepreneurial intention; and 3. Both work value orientation and entrepreneurial selfefficacy have a direct influence on entrepreneurial intention, but the influence of entrepreneurial self-efficacy is greater than that of work value orientation. Therefore, enhancing college students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy is the main way to improve entrepreneurial intention. Based on this, to improve the entrepreneurial intention of college students, colleges and universities should strengthen science and technology innovation perception education, do a good job in student employment guidance, improve students’ self-efficacy, meet undergraduates’ diverse employment needs, and provide more entrepreneurship resources to undergraduates.

Effects of Culture-Based Tasks in Improving Students of English as a Foreign Language Speaking Skills: Jimma College of Teachers’ Education

This study aimed to examine how culture-based tasks can enhance college students’ speaking skills. The researchers used a pre-post-test nonequivalent control group design, which is a type of quasi-experimental design, along with a quantitative research approach. The participants were 60 students in the second semester of the academic year 2021/22, divided into an experimental group consisting of 31 students and a control group consisting of 29 students. To gather data, a pre-test and post-test speaking test were conducted to evaluate the speaking accuracy and fluency levels of both groups before and after the intervention. The analysis of the pre-test results indicated no significant difference between the two groups. Throughout the study, the experimental group engaged in culture-based tasks as a means to improve their speaking accuracy and fluency for a period of three months, while the control group continued with conventional methods. At the end of the intervention, a post-test was administered to both groups, and their achievements were compared. The statistical analysis showed that the experimental group obtained higher average scores in the post-test, indicating that they exhibited better speaking accuracy and fluency after the intervention compared to the control group. These findings emphasize the positive impact of incorporating culture-based tasks in language learning contexts. The study recommends integrating such tasks to cultivate a more conducive English classroom environment and enhance students’ speaking skills.

The Perception of Using TED Talks in Enhancing College Students’ Listening Skill for The Fourth Semester of Health Administration Students at STIKes RS Husada Academic Year 2023 –2024

This article presents survey data from 21 students from Bachelor’s Degree of Health Administration about the perception of using TED talks. The objective of the study was to know the students’ perceptions of using TED Talks in improving listening skill for the fourth semester of Health Administration students at STIKes RS Husada Academic Year 2022 – 2023. In the perception of convenience, the mean scores for all statements ranged from 2.05 to 2.33, which suggests a positive perception of convenience. The standard deviations were relatively low, indicating a certain level of agreement among the students. In the perception of benefits, the mean scores for all statements ranged from 1.86 to 2.10, indicating positive perceptions of benefits. The standard deviations were relatively low, suggesting a certain level of agreement among the students. In the perception of interests, the mean scores for all statements were around 2.00, indicating positive perceptions of interests. The standard deviations were relatively low, suggesting a certain level of agreement among the students. In conclusion, the findings from the study indicate that the students have positive perceptions regarding the convenience, benefits, and interests associated with using TED Talks for learning and practicing listening skills.

Effectiveness of gamification and selection of appropriate teaching methods of creativity: Students’ perspectives

Complex creativity and multiple learning objectives often require combining several teaching methods, and gamification may be an effective teaching strategy for enhancing learning. However, few studies have examined the combined effects of implementing gamification and multiple teaching methods in a course from students' perspectives. Therefore, this study implemented gamification and six teaching methods of enhancing college students' creativity in university creativity and innovation course in November and December 2021 and aimed to examine the effects on their creativity, collaboration, and communication skills and used the Analytical Hierarchy Process to identify more effective teaching methods corresponding to the learning objectives from students’ perspectives. The results showed that students perceive that gamification could stimulate their motivation, attitudes, and interest in learning and enhance their creativity, collaboration, and communication skills. Furthermore, Mandala thinking was the most effective teaching method for the overall goal. In contrast, the most effective teaching methods for the creativity, collaboration, and communication skills learning objectives were the SCAMPER technique, balloon competition, and Mandala thinking, respectively. The results provide essential references for selecting effective teaching methods that meet the teaching objectives.

Retracted: Construction of Model to Enhance College Students’ Core Competitiveness from Perspective of Employment Competition through IoT Apps

Retracted: Construction of Model to Enhance College Students’ Core Competitiveness from Perspective of Employment Competition through IoT Apps