A Study of Effectiveness of Enhancing College Students' English Proficiency through English Salon——Taking AIB English Salon as an Example

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10.2991/sschd-17.2017.76How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English Salon, English Listening and Speaking, College Students

Abstract

In 2011 English salon was established in Guangdong AIB Polytechnic College. A survey response (80.74%) from 302 of 374 students who took part in English salon was conducted to analyze the merits and problems of English salon. The results were as follows: (1) English salon is effective in improving college students' English proficiency especially English listening and speaking; (2) English salon helps college students develop other ability and skills such as problem solving skills, leadership skills and management skills. Even though there exist some potential problems and disadvantages, measures will be taken to improve English salon in order to benefit more students.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Fen Wang
AU  - Kai-Yan Feng
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TI  - A Study of Effectiveness of Enhancing College Students' English Proficiency through English Salon——Taking AIB English Salon as an Example
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 402
SN  - 2352-5398
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