A Summary of the Research Status of Learning Engagement at Home and Abroad

Abstract

As a good way to assess students’ learning effect, students’ learning engagement has been popular among scholars both home and abroad. In this paper, we summarized the researches from home and abroad and discussed students’ learning engagement from the aspect of its background, the connotation and structure of its concept as well as its measurement tools. Then we compared the empirical studies in China and abroad and found there were still some problems unsolved in the domestic studies such as: scholars failed to reach a consensus, no original Chinese measurement tools and few empirical studies on English major students. We also talked about the future trend of leaning engagement, hoping to make contribution for the further researches.