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Research on Satisfaction with English for Academic Purposes Courses

Qiangwei Lu

Abstract


EAP courses are of great importance for the development of EUMs’ EAP skills. On the other hand, student satisfaction is an effective method to study the effectiveness of EAP courses. Therefore, this study designs a questionnaire from four indicators (teaching environment, course management, course resources and teachers) to investigate the satisfaction of EUMs in Ningbo University of Technology with EAP courses in order to provide references. According to the results, EUMs are well satisfied with all those four factors, especially teachers and course resources. Additionally, based on the results, feasible solutions to improve student satisfaction in EAP courses are proposed.

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English for Academic Purposes; Student Satisfaction

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i1.7016

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