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Even though computers and mobile devices are widely applied to language teaching and learning, few attempts have been made to explore the learning engagement of higher vocational college students in MALL environment. This study set out to investigate learning engagement of higher vocational college students in MALL by using validated learning engagement scale. A total of 339 students were enrolled in the investigation. The data were analyzed from three dimensions: behavioral engagement, emotional engagement and cognitive engagement. The results reveal that higher vocational college students’ learning engagement in MALL environment is at a moderately high level. Additionally we found that there is no significant difference between male and female college students in English learning engagement. And there is no significant profession difference on emotional and cognitive engagement, but a significant profession difference exists on behavioral engagement in MALL environment.
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This work was financially supported by 1) 2021 Foreign Language Education Teaching Reform Project of Foreign Language Teaching Steering Committee of Vocational Colleges, Ministry of Education, “Research on the Construction of College English Learning Community in Educational Informatization” (Project number: WYJZW-2021-2059).
2) 2022 Education and Teaching Reform Project of Guangdong Industry Polytechnic (Project number: JG202212)
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Ou, J. (2023). Exploring Learning Engagement of Higher Vocational College Students in MALL. In: González-González, C.S., et al. Learning Technologies and Systems. ICWL SETE 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13869. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33023-0_36
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