Research on Adult English Learning Model and Implementation Mechanism Based on Wisdom Learning
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This study selected adult students of different gender and age as subjects, and through them,the study on adult English learning mechanism for empirical research, as to understand the adult students of different gender, age, whether have significant differences in foreign language learning beliefs and learning strategies, and explores the relationship between learning strategies and learning results in adult students’ English learning with the use of language learning beliefs. Results show that: (1) the adult students with different sex had no significant differences in learning belief, but had a significant difference in terms of learning strategies. Different age adult students have significant differences in learning belief and learning strategies.(2) learning belief has a moderate correlation between learning strategies as a whole, and all the parts of the learning beliefs and learning strategies are reached significant level. Learning strategies has low positive correlation with learning effects, reached extremely significant level. In all parts of learning strategies and learning effect present positive correlation, and reached significant level.
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