Lifelong Learning: A Study of College English Autonomous Learning

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  • Leyuan Xiang Center for Faculty Development, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

Abstract

This paper examines two modes of teaching: the traditional teaching mode and the teaching mode based on the notion of lifelong learning which places greater emphasis on the cultivation of students’ ability to learn autonomously outside the classroom. In order to compare the effectiveness of these two teaching modes, two hundred freshmen from a foreign language college were taken as subjects and divided into an equal number of control classes and experimental classes. The results showed that the overall performance of the experimental class which was taught by the new teaching mode significantly improved. The results of the questionnaire survey showed that students in the experimental class spent more time on autonomous learning after class, and the content and method were more in-depth; moreover, most of the students in the experimental class thought
that autonomous learning could effectively improve their English language skills.

Keywords: lifelong learning, English, teaching mode, autonomous learning

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L. Xiang, "Lifelong Learning: A Study of College English Autonomous Learning",
Engineering Intelligent Systems, vol. 29 no. 2, pp. 103-108, 2021.






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2021-03-01

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Vol. 29 No. 2 (2021): International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems

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