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    Making College English Meaningful: Learning Diagnosis, Pedagogical Intervention, and Student Engagement in a Chinese Vocational Undergraduate EFL Classroom

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    Author(s)
    Xipeng Liu
    Keywords
    College English; EFL teaching; vocational undergraduate education; learner engagement; learning diagnosis
    Abstract
    This paper reports a qualitative classroom-based case study of College English teaching in a Chinese vocational undergraduate EFL classroom. It responds to a recurring pedagogical problem: students often appear reluctant to participate in English learning, but such reluctance may be rooted in accumulated negative learning experiences, examination-oriented expectations, and uncertainty about the value of English in the age of artificial intelligence. Drawing on teaching slides, reflective teaching scripts, classroom interaction records, student responses, student notes, knowledge-management sheets, teacher comments, peer-evaluation materials, and student artefacts, the study examines how learning diagnosis was translated into a three-stage pedagogical intervention. The intervention included low-threshold pre-class English sharing to rebuild confidence, connected in-class language tasks to stimulate exploration and meaningful output, and post-class knowledge organisation, peer assessment, and learning-state evaluation to make learning gains visible. The findings suggest that students’ engagement became more observable when English tasks were linked to their prior experiences, disciplinary interests, professional imagination, and opportunities for evaluation. The study argues that meaningful College English teaching in vocational undergraduate education requires teachers to move beyond asking students to participate and instead design conditions in which students can experience competence, connection, and visible growth.
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    Published 30 Jun 2026
    DOI 10.22161/ijeel.5.3.11
    Pages 89-97
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