An Ecological Perspective on University Students’ Sustainable Language Learning during the Transition from High School to University in China

Li, Chen; Abrar-ul-Hassan, Shahid; Gao, Fei

doi:10.3390/su12187359

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“…It seems that the teachers need to be more engaged in responding to the learning needs of international students like our participants. Suggestions such as developing individualized curricula and students' potential can be taken into consideration [35].…”

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Sustaining Multilingualism in Chinese Universities: Uzbekistani Students’ Demotivation While Learning Chinese

Liu

Zheng

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Sustainability

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This paper reports on a mixed method study exploring demotivation among Uzbekistani students while they are learning Chinese in a Chinese university. In the study, we conducted a survey among 67 Uzbekistani students, and interviewed 30 of them about their experiences of learning Chinese. The analysis of the data revealed that a lack of self-confidence, insufficient learning opportunities, a lack of learning support, and teacher qualities were the most salient factors affecting Uzbekistani students’ demotivation while learning Chinese. In light of the findings, we put forward suggestions for language educators and educational administrators in order to enable them to enhance language learners’ interest in and enthusiasm for learning Chinese, so that they will sustain their learning efforts and Chinese universities can achieve sustainable multilingualism.

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Sustaining Multilingualism in Chinese Universities: Uzbekistani Students’ Demotivation While Learning Chinese

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Zheng

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“…This related to the fact that preferences, commitment, belief, feelings, self-regulated and self-efficacy, personal skill and knowledge, especially physical and mental health in pandemic influenced e-Learning adoption the most [33,35,38,39,40,45]. This finding is supported by statement that it is related to e-Learning characteristics, especially during pandemic, where teachers' presence is low compared to face-to-face class, causing self-regulated learning related skills to influence readiness and adaptation in e-Learning adoption [50].…”

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E-Learning Adoption Readiness in Secondary Education of Developed and Developing Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Nuzulismah,

Santoso,

Putra

2023

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Situation in COVID-19 pandemic forced educational activity to shift from face-to-face to blended learning or to full online learning. This situation becomes a problem in different academic levels, especially secondary education as some teachers and students were not ready. This â€œE-Learning Adoption Readiness in Secondary Education: A Systematic Literature Reviewâ€ article summarized the influencing factors and issues of readiness in adopting e-Learning in high school, including the technologies and communication tools, as the foundation of analysis. The research objective is to identify and compare e-Learning adoption between developed and developing countries during pandemic. This article used Kitchenham and Charter method which extract data research published in databases such as Scopus and Science Direct. This research found distinct gaps between developed and developing countries in the context of e-learning readiness adoption and factors that influenced the said adoption. We conclude that there are still a numbers of basic internal and external factors that need to be considered in e-Learning adoption, especially in developing countries. The implication and recommendation for the adoption during pandemic is hoped to be insightful for future research in the same field, as there are significant differences in developing and developed countries, especially regarding IT literacy.

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“…In this research, an accessible user simulator [38] was applied to evaluate the SC-DDQ model to ensure that the training process was affordable and practical. During training, the user simulator offers rewards and simulated user responses according to hand-crafted rules to the dialog agent.…”

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Scheduled Curiosity-Deep Dyna-Q: Efficient Exploration for Dialog Policy Learning

Niu,

Ito,

Nose

2024

IEEE Access

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Training task-oriented dialog agents based on reinforcement learning is time-consuming and requires a large number of interactions with real users. How to grasp dialog policy within limited dialog experiences remains an obstacle that makes the agent training process less efficient. In addition, most previous frameworks start training by randomly choosing training samples, which differs from the human learning method and hurts the efficiency and stability of training. Therefore, we propose Scheduled Curiosity-Deep Dyna-Q (SC-DDQ), a curiosity-driven curriculum learning framework based on a state-of-the-art model-based reinforcement learning dialog model, Deep Dyna-Q (DDQ). Furthermore, we designed learning schedules for SC-DDQ and DDQ, respectively, following two opposite training strategies: classic curriculum learning and its reverse version.Our results show that by introducing scheduled learning and curiosity, the new framework leads to a significant improvement over the DDQ and Deep Q-learning (DQN). Surprisingly, we found that traditional curriculum learning was not always effective. Specifically, according to the experimental results, the easyfirst and difficult-first strategies are more suitable for SC-DDQ and DDQ. To analyze our results, we adopted the entropy of sampled actions to depict action exploration and found that training strategies with high entropy in the first stage and low entropy in the last stage lead to better performance.

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An Ecological Perspective on University Students’ Sustainable Language Learning during the Transition from High School to University in China

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Sustaining Multilingualism in Chinese Universities: Uzbekistani Students’ Demotivation While Learning Chinese

Sustaining Multilingualism in Chinese Universities: Uzbekistani Students’ Demotivation While Learning Chinese

E-Learning Adoption Readiness in Secondary Education of Developed and Developing Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Scheduled Curiosity-Deep Dyna-Q: Efficient Exploration for Dialog Policy Learning

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