International Journal of Education

Learning engagement is an important indicator to evaluate the quality of online learning. It is necessary to understand the status quo of online English learning engagement and its influencing factors. With the theoretical support of Fredricks’s “cognitive-emotion-behavior” three-dimensional model, this study adopts the method of questionnaire survey to investigate the online English learning engagement of English majors. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 25.0, as follows: 1) the status quo of online English learning engagement of English majors; 2) In the process of online English learning for English majors, what factors affect students’ online learning engagement. The results showed that: 1) The online English learning engagement of English majors intended to be at a medium level. 2) The online English learning engagement of English majors was influenced by five categories of factors: personal factors, teaching factors of teachers, interference from irrelevant information, peer influence, and other factors. This study offered beneficial ideas and inspirations on how to enhance their participation and persistence in online learning, and provided targeted strategic support for promoting the deep integration and efficiency improvement of the blended teaching model.

English major; Engagement; Three-dimensional model of “cognition-emotion-behavior”; Online English learning