Study of the Relationship among College English Learners’ Classroom Environment, Foreign Language Enjoyment and Learning Engagement in Western China

Ting Qin; Yunxia Zhong

doi:10.54097/6weaw346

Authors

Ting Qin
Yunxia Zhong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/6weaw346

Keywords:

Classroom Environment, Foreign Language Enjoyment, Learning Engagement

Abstract

In order to explore the overall relationship among classroom environment, foreign language enjoyment and learning engagement in college English learning, and to make up for the lack of integrated analysis of the three in existing research, this research uses data from a questionnaire survey of 200 college students learning English in Western China. The analysis shows that learners’ classroom environment, foreign language enjoyment and learning engagement are at an upper middle level. Classroom environment significantly positively predicts learning engagement, especially behavioral engagement. foreign language enjoyment plays a partial mediating role between the two. The classroom environment has a stronger direct impact on learning engagement than existing research.

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