Empirical Study on Teaching Effectiveness Using English Medium Instruction for Non-English Major Student—A Case Study of a Statistics Course

Abstract

English medium instruction is one of the tools for higher education internationalization in China. The paper will take a statistics course as a case study to identify the influencing factors that would affect the English teaching effectiveness. The results from a regression analysis indicate that the learning attitude, i.e. students’ wiliness to read teaching materials before or after class, overall learning capability, here refer to GPA, and the mathematical background of the students are significant factors on teaching effectiveness at significant level of 1%, 3% and 6% respectively. While the students’ capability in English learning, i.e. students have already passed College English Test Band 4 (CET4), and students have already learned other courses taught in English before this statistics course, are not significant factors on English teaching effectiveness.