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Needs Analysis of Metacognitive Strategies Training in English Language Instruction Using Digital Technology and to Improve the Autonomous-Learning Ability and English Language Achievement of Chinese EFL Undergraduate Students

Background and aims: Learner autonomy has become a focal point in language learning over the past 30 years. In China, fostering and improving college students’ autonomous learning ability has become a crucial aspect of higher education English teaching reform in the 21st century. Thus, this paper aims to analyze the needs of Chinese EFL undergraduate students to improve their autonomous learning ability and English language achievement. Materials and methods: A needs analysis questionnaire (N=183) was conducted to investigate students’ necessities, lacks, and wants in English language learning. Results: The findings showed that the students required being trained to use metacognitive strategies and apply digital technology in their English learning to improve their autonomous learning ability and English achievement. Conclusions: Besides using metacognitive strategies to improve their autonomous learning and English language achievement, students also expressed their preferences for digital tools as effective means to augment their learning outcomes and motivation.

Students' Foreign Language Learning Adaptability and Mental Health Supported by Artificial Intelligence.

The rapid development of social reform and the economy has brought great challenges to the mental health of college students. However, there are few studies on the impact of these psychological problems on college students' English learning. As a special group about to enter society, studying the mental health of college students in foreign language learning is of great significance. This paper discusses the principle of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and the interactive mechanism to support college students' foreign language learning. Additionally, the adaptability supporting college students' foreign language learning is analyzed according to the current situation of AI supporting foreign language learning. Then, the mental health of college students in the AI environment is investigated and analyzed. This paper takes foreign and non-foreign language majors of Changchun University of Technology as the object and uses questionnaires, interviews, and classroom observation to obtain basic data. The results show that college students' adaptability to foreign language learning is higher than that of non-foreign. Students' intelligent operation and knowledge storage level impact their adaptability to foreign language learning. Psychological health problems include learning anxiety, loneliness, depression, and inferiority in college students' foreign language learning. These negative emotions, to a certain extent, affect the learning effect of college students' foreign language learning. This paper is of great significance to the adaptability of college students' foreign language learning to the intelligent environment and the analysis of their mental health problems. This paper hopes to provide data reference for the research on improving college students' foreign language learning effects.

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.

Exploring the experiences of college students in Chinese campus lockdown policy during the COVID-19 outbreak: A qualitative study

Campus lockdown policy is one of the most effective non-pharmaceutical intervention strategies used to prevent and control the coronavirus disease 2019epidemic worldwide. College students were greatly affected by this policy. Related studies center on English-speaking countries; few have highlighted discussion of the Chinese context. This study, therefore, aimed to broadly elicit the real experiences and unique insights of college students on Chinese campus lockdown policy. Through qualitative research, we identified four key themes with ten contributory subthemes: physiological experiences, safety experiences, love and belonging experiences, and self-esteem experiences. The unique contribution of this study relates to experiences relating to love and belonging and to self-esteem, which are little discussed in the existing literature. Our findings can provide enlightenment on how to improve college students’ health.

Feasibility of designing a cloud-based platform for entrepreneurship training of college students

Abstract This paper aims to improve college students’ entrepreneurial abilities as its main goal. A platform for college students’ entrepreneurship development is constructed using cloud technology, and the entrepreneurship data on the platform is classified and divided by combining it with the KNN algorithm. The algorithm is optimized for distance calculation and distance sorting stages to reduce inter-program dependencies and shorten the program execution time. The distance between matrices is calculated by calling the functions in the cublas function library. The experimental data are used to analyze the feasibility of entrepreneurship training for college students. The results show that the KNN algorithm can be applied to data processing in cloud computing. When the data dimension is 128 and the number of sample points is 215, the algorithm can get a maximum speedup of 1.52 times. The server configuration of the platform needs to be in a 4-way dual-core or 4-core to ensure the platform’s normal operation. This study is beneficial in promoting the improvement and development of entrepreneurial skills for college students.

Model Construction and Analysis of Deep Learning-based Cybersecurity Awareness Enhancement for College Students

Abstract This paper constructs a network security intelligence analysis model based on deep learning methods. Firstly, the weights and thresholds of network packets are modeled using the convolutional neural network algorithm to extract the main information features. Then, the backward propagation algorithm is used for layer-by-layer propagation, combined with an unsupervised autoencoder to achieve the network parameter update. The results show that the model can recognize a variety of network viruses, with an average detection rate of 97%, and the error rate is kept around 0.5%. The network security intelligence analysis model is based on the deep learning method to analyze and warn about network intrusion data, effectively improving college students’ awareness about network security.

The Role of integrating AI and VR in fostering environmental awareness and enhancing activism among college students

Given the increasing concern about the destructive impact of sympathetic activities on the Earth, involving the next generation in environmental conservation is crucial. Therefore, this study aims to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) can strengthen college students' environmental awareness and encourage them to make a move on environmental issues. Four hundred college students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds participated in a six-month study, and 375 valid questionnaires were successfully collected. By combining AI and VR, we provided interactive and engaging courses to deliver knowledge about environmental issues and inevitable disasters. The research demonstrates that using AI and VR technologies to teach environmental challenges can significantly improve college students' understanding of these topics, assist them in developing a conservationist value system, and provoke them to carry on environmental advocacy. This study adopted scale items to measure college students' environmental awareness and activities. More isolated structural equation modeling validated the value of AI and VR in environmental education. Additionally, mediation and moderation analyses indicated that the strength of college students' ecological susceptibility and motivation indirectly influenced their enthusiasm and environmental awareness through AI and VR. Through comparative analysis, we found that AI and VR exert differential effects on college students. Further correlational and regression analyses demonstrated that raising college students' environmental awareness can effectively promote their pro-environmental behavior, offering them more critical agency, possibly without the need for continued use of AI and VR. Therefore, employing AI and VR in environmental education may effectively help young people in ecological sustainability. Ultimately, we discussed the current AI and VR technologies adoption in Chinese universities and proposed relevant policy implications.

The Impact of Online Social Behavior on College Student's Life Satisfaction: Chain-Mediating Effects of Perceived Social Support and Core Self-Evaluation.

To examine the influence of social behavior on college students' life satisfaction and the mediating effects of perceived social support and core self-evaluation. 779 college students were investigated with the online social behavior scale, life satisfaction scale, core self-evaluation scale and perceived social support scale. Online social behavior significantly positively predicted the perceived social support and life satisfaction; Perceived social support significantly positively predicted the core self-evaluation and life satisfaction; Core self-evaluation significantly positively predicted life satisfaction; Perceived social support and core self-evaluation have a significant chain mediating effect between online social behavior and life satisfaction. This study confirmed the positive effects of online social behavior on college students, through improving college students' level of perceived social support and core self-evaluation to increase life satisfaction.

Improving University Students’ ESP Writing Skills through a Process-Based Portfolio Approach

Abstract Today’s employers expect university graduates to possess appropriate written ESP skills, which are most effectively taught through individualized ESP writing skills development. This paper provides an account of the ways a self-developed portfolio approach may be exploited to improve EFL learners’ ESP writing skills in a university environment. Through a quasi-experimental research design (N = 168), this project hypothesised that, and tested whether, our process-writing-based portfolio approach has a beneficial impact on participants’ ESP writing skills and examined if the portfolio approach in question was an effective means of improving participants’ ESP writing skills. For the testing of this hypothesis, a quasi-experimental research design was used with an experimental (N = 84) and a control group (N = 84), and participants’ test results were compared to examine the effectiveness of the applied portfolio approach. The findings of the study show that the portfolio approach applied in the scope of the present research project proves to be an efficient way of improving students’ ESP writing skills and can thus justifiably be applied at other institutions of higher education for improving such skills.

Research on the Influence of Urban Short Video on College Students' Tourism Behavior

This study found that the impact of domestic urban short video on college students tourism behavior is mainly concentrated in four aspects: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, tourism attitude and tourism behavior. In order to study this influence relationship more accurately, the author proposes a model based on the influence mechanism of urban short video, which includes the above four independent variables, in order to obtain better research results. By combining network research and questionnaire survey, it is found that urban short video has a significant impact on college students tourism behavior, especially in improving college students tourism decision-making effect and stimulating tourism interest. In order to better promote the development of urban short video and college students tourism industry, this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions. It is hoped that this study can provide new perspectives and inspirations for urban short video producers and college students tourism industry, and provide some suggestions for promoting sustainable development and innovation in related fields.

A Study of the Effectiveness of Corpus-Assisted Collocation Teaching on Improving College Students’ English Writing Ability Based on Random Matrix Theory

Abstract This paper presents a semantic analysis of corpus-assisted collocation teaching based on the random matrix theory, taking into account the characteristics of the computer corpus. The construction of a word-document matrix is based on the potential semantic analysis of the corpus and the intrinsic relationships between words and documents. The aggregation and combination relations of collocation, i.e., the lexicon of word meanings, are used to calculate affirmative sentence similarity, incorporating dependent syntactic and semantic analysis. The error analysis method was applied to the teaching of collocations to analyze the common types of errors and the variability of writing errors in English writing and to discuss the correlation between the performance of English composition and the number of collocations used. The correlation coefficient between composition scores and the number of collocations in compositions was 0.924, and the composition scores of college students had a positive linear relationship with the number of collocations.

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.

University Students Adult Attachment and Love Conflict Coping Strategies: Study on the Relationship with Love Satisfaction

With the development of The Times, the change in university students love situation is an important entry point in the study of an intimate relationships. In this study, a questionnaire survey of 320 University students and 5 University students showed that the overall level of love satisfaction was high, but the avoidance and anxiety of adult attachment were generally high. Love conflict coping strategies have a significant impact on the love satisfaction of university students and have a certain intermediary role in the relationship between adult attachment and love satisfaction of university students. Therefore, constructive communication is one of the effective ways to improve University students love satisfaction, which is conducive to the healthy development of University students love psychology.

A Study on the Influencing Factors of Football Learning Interest in Teaching Public Physical Education in Colleges and Universities

Influenced by the general background of campus football, the development of campus football in China is also gradually entering into a rapid development stage. According to the national monitoring data of college students’ physical health, the physical health of college students in China shows a declining trend. Based on the background of China’s vigorous development of school football, the improvement of college students’ physical health problems has encountered an unprecedented opportunity for development. The improvement of college students’ physical fitness cannot be separated from daily physical exercise, and the promotion of learning interest is the basic motivation for students to carry out physical exercise. This paper analyses the influencing factors of football learning interest in teaching public physical education in colleges and puts forward several suggestions in order to enhance the enthusiasm of college students in physical exercise.

The potential of e-books to improve college students’ self-directed learning in biology

Independence in learning is very necessary for the application of online learning. Students as learners must have Self Directed Learning. This study aims to develop independent learning resources to facilitate student learning independence. Development research using the ADDIE model is carried out until the development stage. Needs analysis is conducted on 49 Biology Education Students with data collection instruments using the SDL test consisting of 5 question indicators: 1) Identifying learning needs; 2) Set up study routines and discover concept mappings; 3) Using concept/outline mapping as a useful understanding various information; 4) Self-assessment, honing potential; 5) Can explore self-ability. The test results show that in indicator 1 there are 9 students (18.37%) and indicator 5 as many as 11 students (22.45%) who have SDL abilities. The results of the needs analysis become the basis for the development of interactive electronic books through features such as material summaries, images, animations, videos, references (links and barcodes), interactive exercises, keywords, interest facts, practice questions, formative tests, and reflections. It is hoped that this interactive e-book can increase the independence of undergraduate and PPG students in studying biotechnology material as a source of independent learning.Abstrak Kemandirian belajar sangat diperlukan dalam penerapan pembelajaran daring. Mahasiswa sebagai pembelajar harus memiliki kemandirian belajar (Self Directed Learning/SDL). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan sumber belajar mandiri untuk memfasilitasi kemandirian belajar mahasiswa. Penelitian pengembangan menggunakan model ADDIE penelitian ini dilakukan sampai tahap development. Analisis kebutuhan, dilakukan pada 49 orang Mahasiswa Pendidikan Biologi dengan instrumen pengumpulan data menggunakan tes SDL terdiri dari 5 indikator pertanyaan: 1) Mengidentifikasi kebutuhan belajar; 2) Mengatur rutinitas belajar dan menemukan pemetaan konsep; 3) Menggunakan pemetaan konsep/garis besar sebagai metode yang berguna untuk memahami berbagai informasi; 4) Menilai sendiri, merefleksikan dan mengasah potensi; 5) Bisa mengeksplor kemampuan diri. Hasil tes menunjukkan pada indikator 1 sebanyak 9 orang (18,37%) dan 5 sebanyak 11 orang (22,45%) yang memiliki kemampuan SDL. Hasil analisis kebutuhan menjadi dasar untuk pengembangan buku elektronik interaktif melalui fitur-fitur barupa ringkasan materi, gambar, animasi, video, referensi (link dan barcode), latihan interaktif, key word, interesring fact, latihan soal, tes formatif dan refleksi. Diharapkan e-book interaktif ini dapat meningkatkan kemandirian mahasiswa S1 dan PPG dalam mempelajari materi bioteknologi sebagai sumber belajar mandiri.

Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavior Coaching Intervention for Promoting College Students’ Financial Risk Tolerance and Attitudes Towards Financial Risk

In this study, we reported the effect of an online business coaching intervention based on the rational-emotive and cognitive behavior therapy coaching (RE-CBT coaching) approach that was tested to determine if it can improve college students’ financial risk tolerance and attitudes towards financial risk. The researchers used an open label, group randomized control design. During the study, fifty-four participants were part of the online business coaching group, whereas fifty-three participants were part of the control group. Prior to and immediately after the coaching program, as well as three months later, quantitative data was collected. Posttest data based on test of between-subjects effects revealed that online business coaching program based on RE-CBT coaching approach was significantly helpful in the improvement of students’ financial risk tolerance and attitudes toward financial risk compared to control group. Follow-up data based on test of between-subjects effects further revealed that the significantly helpful effects of online business coaching program based on RE-CBT coaching approach on students’ financial risk tolerance and attitudes toward financial risk were sustained when compared to control group. According to the findings, online business coaching based on RE-CBT coaching approach has the potential to enhance the financial risk tolerance and attitudes toward financial risk among college students.

Magnitude, relationship and determinants of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and depression among University of Gondar undergraduate students, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022: Non-recursive structural equation modeling.

Up to 80% of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have a concomitant psychiatric disorder. ADHD and depression, combined with the demands of University life, can pose serious challenges for students. However, there are limited studies conducted on this topic in our country. Therefore, the current study assessed the magnitude, relationship, and determinants of ADHD and depressive symptoms among students at the University of Gondar. An institution-based cross-sectional study was employed among 1514 undergraduate students at the University of Gondar from June 1-20, 2022. A stratified, simple random sampling technique was applied. Structural equation modeling was employed. The degree of relationship was interpreted based on the adjusted regression coefficient with 95% confidence interval (CI) and p-value (<0.05). In our study, 37.6% [CI: 35.2-40.1%] and 20.01% [CI: 18.1-22.1%] of the participants had depressive and ADHD symptoms, respectively. Chronic illness [β = 0.19, CI; 0.09, 0.30], alcohol use [β = 0.10, CI; 0.03, 0.17], social support [β = -0.23, CI; -0.29, -0.17], problematic internet use (PIU) [β = 0.23, CI; 0.18, 0.27], and insomnia [β = 0.24, CI; 0.17, 0.30] had a direct relationship with depressive symptoms. Mother education level [β = -0.09, CI; -0.13, -0.06], birth order [β = -0.09, CI; -0.11, -0.07], chat chewing [β = 0.18, CI; 0.06, 0.30], and depressive symptoms [β = 0.73, CI; 0.62, 0.86] had a direct relationship with ADHD. Chronic illness [β = 0.14, CI; 0.06, 0.22], PIU [β = 0.16, CI; 0.13, 0.21], social support [β = -0.16, CI; -0.22, -0.12], and insomnia [β = 0.17, CI; 0.13, 0.23] had an indirect effect on ADHD. The prevalence of ADHD and depressive symptoms was high. Chronic disease, alcohol use, social support, PIU, and insomnia had a direct effect on depressive symptoms and an indirect effect on ADHD. Mother education, birth order, chat chewing, and depressive symptoms had a direct effect on ADHD. Our study provided useful clues for clinical treatment and school-based interventions that aim to improve college students' mental well-being. It is better to design school-based intervention and prevention programs to achieve timely diagnosis and treatment of these disorders among university students.

A Study on College English Reading Teaching for Multimodal Teaching Model

Abstract In order to effectively improve college students’ English reading ability, this paper introduces multimodal teaching to analyze the way of teaching English reading in college. This paper firstly dismantles the multimodal teaching model, which is divided into multimodal teaching and the incorporation of the convolutional neural network, and analyzes the current situation of college English reading teaching. Secondly, we select the college English reading teaching modality, construct a multimodal fusion model for college English reading teaching and optimize this model to analyze the convergence and time complexity. Through the analysis of the fusion performance, we found that the accuracy and the pick-up degree of the pre-fusion increased by 22.25% and decreased by 18.22% compared with the unimodal fusion, and the number of participants increased by 61.51 Mb, which was not much different from the middle and late comparison, so the pre-fusion was selected to have the highest practicality. Finally, through the survey statistics on the application of multimodal teaching of college English reading, more than 80% of students and teachers think that multimodal teaching of college English reading can improve their English reading ability and teaching ability. So this teaching method improves their reading ability and enriches the diversity of teaching modes at the same time, which is worth promoting.

Improvement of college students’ generalized anxiety disorder by innovation and entrepreneurship training reform

BackgroundIn the new era, college students are facing more and more job competition, leading to more and more college students suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. The reform of innovation and entrepreneurship training mode is regarded as a way that may help relieve the anxiety symptoms of college students because it can help their employment.Subjects and Methods300 college students were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. The control group participated in the traditional entrepreneurship training course, and the experimental group participated in the innovative entrepreneurship training course. They received an 8-week training in innovation and entrepreneurship. This training included career planning guidance, entrepreneurial practice projects, and mental health guidance. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) was used to evaluate the status of students.ResultsThe results showed that the average score of the General anxiety symptom assessment scale of the experimental group decreased from 10.8 before the experiment to 6.2 after the training (P &lt; 0.05). The average score of the control group decreased from 10.9 before the experiment to 9.8 after the training (P &lt; 0.05). In the long-term follow-up, the anxiety symptoms of the experimental group remained at a low level, while the anxiety symptoms of the control group increased significantly.Conclusions It shows that the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship training mode has a positive effect on the improvement of generalized anxiety disorder of college students in the new era.

The aid of new ideas of legal education in the treatment of SAD in college students

BackgroundSocial anxiety disorder is a common psychological problem in college students, affecting their social function and quality of life. The current therapeutic methods mainly include psychotherapy and drug therapy, which have some limitations while obtaining certain curative effects.Subjects and MethodsA total of 200 college students diagnosed with social anxiety disorder were selected and assessed by the Stanford Acute Stress Response Questionnaire and 3-minute Disorder Assessment Scale. SPSS 23.0 was used for data analysis.ResultsThe results showed that the social anxiety symptoms were significantly reduced in the college students who received the new concept of legal education-assisted therapy. Before treatment, participants’ social anxiety scores averaged 6.2 (s=1.4), which dropped to 3.8 (s=1.2) after treatment. Similarly, scores of anxiety levels were significantly lower, with average scores of 24.6 (s=3.7) before treatment and 14.2 (s=2.8) after treatment. In addition, the participants’ social functioning improved significantly. Before treatment, participants reported social functioning scores of 55.8 (s=6.2) on average, which improved to 78.4 (s=5.1) after treatment. This indicates that the new concept of legal education has a significant promoting effect on improving college students’ social ability and mental health.ConclusionsIt is found that the new concept of legal education plays an important auxiliary role in the treatment of college students’ social anxiety disorder. It improves the mental health and social ability of college students by reducing anxiety and improving social function.