The Role of Graduate Students? Learning Strategies in Reducing Their English Medium Instruction Avoidance: The Mediation Effect of Language Anxiety

Chia Wei Tang ()
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Chia Wei Tang: National Sun Yat-Sen University

No 8711519, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: In Asia, in order to keep up with internationalisation, the English-Medium Instruction (EMI) course has become a phenomenon in higher education. In turn, EMI literature has increasingly focused on the role of instructor?s pedagogy in reducing students? negative response to EMI courses. Additionally, we further explore, from the students? perspective, whether students can reduce their anxiety about learning in English by adopting varied learning strategies while reducing their avoidance of EMI courses. A questionnaire survey was conducted in spring 2018; 208 postgraduate students from 15 different EMI courses in the School of Business Administration of Sun Yat-sen University participated in this study. We used partial least-squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to explore the relationship between learning strategies, English anxiety, and EMI avoidance, while regarding English proficiency as a controlled variable. The results indicate that English anxiety has a positive relationship to EMI avoidance; critical thinking has a negative relation to English anxiety; effort regulation has a negative relation to EMI avoidance, and English anxiety mediates the relationship between critical thinking and EMI avoidance. General principles are drawn from these findings and are discussed as they apply to the teaching of EMI classes.

Keywords: English for specific purposes; English-medium instruction; English anxiety; learning strategy; Taiwan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2019-07
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 48th International Academic Conference, Copenhagen, Jul 2019, pages 160-160

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