The relationship between Chinese university students' conceptions of language learning and their online self-regulation

System

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 66-78

  Zheng, Chunping ^a,b   Liang, Jyh Chong ^c   Yang, Yu Fang ^c,d   Tsai, Chin Chung ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d JEN TEH JUNIOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conceptions of language learning; Conceptions of learning; Higher education; Learner beliefs; Online self regulation; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957890696     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2016.01.005     Document Type: Article

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