An Empirical Study of the Instrument for the Project-based College English Classroom Environment Construction and Evaluation

Abstract

With the development of the education internationalization, the teaching modes of college English are becoming more and more diversified, and Project-based teaching method is one of the most powerful ones. In order to evaluate the college English classroom environment, how the construct an effective instrument is studied. Taking a sample of 290 students from one university in Dalian, using the methods of exploratory factor analysis,Cronbach’s Alpha,correlation test of SPSS 22.0. The results indicate that all items in the instrument can be categorized into 12 factors which are internally reliable. The reliability coefficients are so high that the items in one factor have certain homogeneity. The formative evaluation and the terminal evaluation are significantly correlated and significantly influenced each other. Thus, in the project-based college English classroom, the learning behaviors and interpersonal support should be fully focused on, in order to optimize students’ ways and the processes of classroom participation, enhance the learning effects and learning satisfaction.