Year | 2017 MT | 2018 FT | 2018 MT |
Class numbers | 32 | 32 | 32 |
Response rates | 75% | 75% | 81% |
Benefits from learning community (LC) programme | |||
The LC programme was interesting. | 63% | 75% | 77% |
The LC programme motivated me to learn more. | 54% | 79% | 73% |
The LC programme made me willing to attend the English classes. | 67% | 83% | 88% |
My role in completing my tasks and my shared tasks, both my English language skills and peer interactions improved. | 67% | 87.5% | 85% |
I built up my confidence because I solved the problems I had never done before on my own. | 58% | 71% | 88% |
I was more team-spirited than before because I had to cooperate with my teammates to finish the complex tasks. | 71% | 83% | 77% |
When I was working in a LC group, I appreciated the benefits of teamwork to carry out complex tasks. | 63% | 75% | 73% |
When I was working in a LC, I learned faster about English language skills than if I had simply studied on my own. | 63% | 75% | 88% |
I learned a lot about speech from my teammates in my LC when they made their presentations. | 58% | 75% | 77% |
Myrole as a member of the LC group | |||
As a result of co-study in LC, I got more help from my teammates. | 67% | 79% | 88% |
While I worked as captain, I was encouraged to exert the influence of my leadership to motivate my teammates. | NA | 87.5% | 88% |
While I served as a learner, I was motivated to learn more. | 67% | 92% | 92% |
We worked more efficiently with a peer leader because he/she worked as a coordinator in our group and helped us defining our priorities. | NA | 83% | 88% |
The role of both peer assessment and teacher assessment | |||
As a result of performing teacher assessment on learning activities of the LC, I felt a great sense of participation for it was a part of my final?term performance. | NA | 75% | 96% |
In performing peer assessment I listened more attentively to my peers’ LC presentation. | NA | 79% | 85% |
I enjoyed performing peer assessment of the LC presentations. | NA | 96% | 77% |
I preferred teacher assessment based on our tasks for it was a small part of my final-term assessment. | NA | 83% | 88% |
I came to realise my problems when my teacher pointed out my mistakes occurring constantly in my learning. | 67% | 79% | 85% |
Knowing my peers would be assessing my group’s presentation made me more responsible in contributing to the small group. | NA | 83% | 92% |
I think performing peer assessment of the LC presentation was valuable to my improvement of language skills. | NA | 83% | 88% |