An Investigation of Factors That Contribute to Student Satisfaction From Online Courses＂ An Example of an Online Accounting Course

Although most courses are offered in the traditional synchronous way where teaching and learning mainly take place in the classroom, the Internet has proven to be an effective tool in learning. The demand of online courses is constantly growing, however, there is a paucity of research of online delivery success factors, especially of accounting courses. The aim of this paper was to investigate＇the factors that contribute to student satisfaction from online teaching and learning of an accounting course. This study was conducted at a university in the United States （U.S.） amongst 80 students enrolled in an online accounting course over a period of two semesters. The quantitative data are based on the students＇ course evaluation forms of the instructor＇s teaching and overall satisfaction with the course. The findings suggest that the students found the asynchronous online teaching and learning interesting and challenging. The factors that mainly contribute to student satisfaction include the instructor＇s preparation for the course and her availability to students, the clear grading criteria, the assignment which they found useful, and the other resources that were available online. They value the least the development of writing skills. Additionally, this study proposes that there is a positive significant correlation between the instructor＇s overall performance and the overall student satisfaction from the course. The instructor＇s performance, availability, and easy to use technology enhance the learning and teaching from online pedagogies.     

非智力因素在英语课堂教学中的重要性及探索

Non-intelligent factors play important roles in the classroom teaching. This paper, by putting forward the problemexisting in language teaching in the classroom-the low efficiency of English teaching, mainly deals with the three non-intelli-gent factors-motivation, interest, and affect and further explore ways to develop them in order to improve the efficiency of lan-guage learning.     

An Initial Study of Improving English Reading Efficiency

Reading,as an important medium for human beings to gain knowledge,also plays a major part in the teaching and learning of English.Nevertheless,in practical teaching,we find that the students are quite at a loss at what to do.This article will probe into how to improve the reading efficiency from two aspects:linguistic factors and non-linguistic factors.     

Applicability of CTL in China

Communicative language teaching,as a comparatively new teaching approach,is conducive to improving the communicative competence of English learners in China.The application of communicative language teaching comes across great opportunities as well as challenges,which include the teacher-related factors and student-related factors.     

Balance Theory and the Relationship among Teacher,Students and Teaching Material

The balance theory was supposed in 1950s,and it provides the theory basis for optimizing the classroom teaching.By applying this theory,we discuss how to keep balance among teacher,students and teaching material.This paper aims to keep these three factors in an open,dynamic and balanced system so as to guarantee the successful classroom teaching.     

Negative Factors in Higher Vocational Colleges’English Teaching and the Methods to It

This thesis will analysis the negative factors in higher vocational colleges’English teaching and try to find effective methods to it.     

The Application of Affective Factors in College English Listening Teaching

The paper mainly discusses the importance of affective factors in college English listening teaching and gives some sug gestions on how to cultivate students’positive affective factors.     

Sociolinguistics and Its Influence on English Teaching

This paper aims at discussing the influence and enlightenment of sociolinguistics to English teaching.Sociolinguistics studies language major in studying social factors.This research way plays a role on English teaching of students.     

Investigation Report of Culture Teaching in College English Listening Class in Colleges of Ethnic Minority Area

In this dissertation, questionnaire is the main way to accomplish the research. Some basic information of culture teaching in today’s English listening class has been drawn from those questionnaires carried out by the students from Hechi University. Though the analysis on the statue of cultural teachings, the factors that confine the cultural teaching and the importance of cultural teaching in college English listening class, we intend to help university students have a better understanding of the significance of cultural teaching. By doing so, cultural teaching will be paid more attention to.     

The Research of Difference between Boys and Girls during English Study

With China’s opening up and joining the World Trade Organization,more and more people are learning English.English study is very important for the learners,which involves a lot of factors,among which the learner’s own factor is the most direct and main factor.In English teaching,we shouldn’t just pay our attention to the regular teaching principle of teaching stu dents in accordance with their aptitude,and turn a blind eye to the non-intellectual factors of the learners.This thesis analyzes the differences and their reasons,and then puts forward some relevant countermeasures for eliminating the differences in English learning between boys and girls,in the hope of promoting them to make progress together in English study.     

Gender Differences in Language Learning and the Implications for EFL Teaching

Gender difference is one of the important factors which affect language learning. This paper reviews the current researches on gender differences in language learning in an EFL context, especially gender differences in affective aspect, language learning strategy use, and other aspects. Finally, it will talk about the pedagogical implications for English teaching, aiming to help the teachers to improve their English teaching in an EFL context.     

Analysis of Factors Influencing English Listening Teaching and the Countermeasures

English teaching focuses on cultivating and improving students’listening,speaking,reading,writing and translating skills,which are complementary to each other.Among these five skills,listening,as an important basic skill,should be put into top priority in English teaching.Mainly based on the analysis of factors influencing English listening teaching,the paper puts for ward some effective countermeasures in improving teaching effectiveness.     

Maximizing the usage of technology-enhanced teaching and learning of science and mathematics in English program in the Malaysian secondary schools system

This research is attempting to examine the effectiveness in the application of ICT （information and communication technology） and standardize courseware in ETeMS （English for Teaching Mathematics and Science） or PPSMI （Pengajaran and Pembelajaran Sains and Matematic dalam Bahasa Inggeris） in English program in the Malaysian secondary school system. Five dimensions of secondary school （type of school, demographic, leadership quality, teaching and learning culture, and teachers＇ personal and working experience） were examined to determine the maximizing usage of TEC （technology-enhanced classroom） in the learning program. In general, there is a significant difference among factors stated above with maximizing usage of TEC in teaching and learning of science and mathematics in English program. The learning culture is also closely related. In addition, the school and teaching staff are another two essential factors found to be the strong fundamental of maximizing the usage of technology in TEC teaching and learning with towering quality. This study represents an addition to the extant literature on maximizing the usage of technology-enhanced teaching and learning towards the excellence of education in the secondary school system. The maximizing usage of TEC teaching and learning environment within the secondary school system is pivotal towards achieving high quality human capital and improving the efficiency and integrity of technology-enhanced learning of science and mathematics in English program. This study provides further groundwork to assist existing education managers to improve work quality and deliver the maximizing usage of TEC teaching and learning towards the excellence in secondary education.     

大学英语教学中教师的作用

Research shows that the less teachers speak in class, the more students talk. So English teacher talk determines, to some extent, whether the teaching in class is successful or not. After giving a brief introduction to teacher‘s role in English class, this paper analyzes the possible factors that affect teacher‘s organization and the students‘ involvement in class. It then suggests some improvements of teacher in order to better our teaching methodology.     

Discussion on English Vocabulary Teaching in Higher Vocational College

Mastering vocabulary is one of the key factors for learning a language. Therefore, how to teach and help students acquire vocabulary is worth researching for every English teacher. This paper mainly provides some effective ways of teaching vocabulary and discusses how to implement these methods in higher vocational English teaching.     

Non-intellectual Factors in Foreign Language Learning

1 Introduction In the teaching process,it is very common that the English grades differ markedly in one class even if the students have the same teacher who teaches them the same English knowledge.It is not all because of their intelligence level.It is due to the students’ non-intellectual factors in a large degree.The learners’ non-intellectual factors refer to the psychological factors such as motivation,will,interest,emotion and habit.This paper mainly focuses on how to cultivate students’ non-intellectual factors to improve the learning quality.     

The Application of DI in CALL mode——in Vocational College English Teaching

At present,Differentiated teaching is very useful in teaching English.This thesis is to explore the usage of DI in voca tional college English teaching under the CALL mode.60 students were selected to complete the project.And as a result,the stu dents’confidence has developed greatly after the DI.     

The Affective Filter Hypothesis and Its Application in English Pronunciation Teaching

Stephen Krashen’s affective filter hypothesis plays a vital role in second language acquisition and foreign language teaching.This paper analyzes the affective factors which influence the English pronunciation learning of the students in higher vocational college and put forward some suggestions on how to improve English pronunciation teaching,based on this affective filter hypothesis.     

Exploring Teachers’ Personal Practical Knowledge through Narrative Inquiry——A Case Study on a College English Teacher

Teachers play an important role in the successful implementation of the current curriculum innovation and their personal practi cal knowledge is a decisive factor in their teaching and that teachers’ knowledge affects every aspect of the teaching act.This paper tries to explore teachers’ personal practical knowledge of a college English teacher and her reading class.It shows how to present her teaching contents,design teaching methods and activities in order to accomplish her teaching tasks and teaching goals.The study combines narrative analysis of the reading design with a process inquiry about teaching and learning.Hopefully,the findings would shed some light on teach ers’ professional development.     

Metaphor and Collocation： A Cognitive Perspective in EFL Teaching

It is of great importance to obtain good collocation knowledge for fluent and appropriate language use as many words are used in a limited set of collocations. Studies on cognitive linguistics show that cognitive factors play an important role in collocation study as most collocations are metaphorically motivated, and that collocational behavior is influenced by a number of factors, including the semantics of the individual items themselves, the influence of other well-established meanings, the influence of metaphor, the influence of semantic prosody, etc.. Therefore, it is significant to explain and teach certain types of collocations in language teaching by considering the underlying factors which influence the collocational process. Chinese English as a foreign language （EFL） learners have some special collocation problems in their English learning, which not only result from grammatical incompetence, but also from their lack of conceptual fluency and metaphor competence. The disclosure of similarities and differences between the conceptual systems of English and Chinese will help to illuminate the nature of negative transfer of their first language in collocation acquisition of Chinese EFL learners. The author of the paper, by disclosing the interaction between collocation and metaphor from cognitive, linguistic, and social perspectives, proposes semantic-oriented principle, pragmatics-oriented principle, and culture-oriented principle to incorporate cognitive factors to collocation teaching. It is suggested that stress should be given to the teaching of conceptual metaphor and its mechanisms in collocation teaching before students can finally improve collocation competence with a focus on metaphor awareness.