original survey data of Chinese undergraduates' College English perception, attitude, and learning motivation
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This data is part of the original survey data of the author's doctoral study. The data contains 592 participants' perceptions of the College English course, attitudes towards English learning, and English language learning motivation. The data is a portion of the total survey data of the author's undefended doctoral thesis. The variable "Perception" encompasses 4 dimensions, namely "general, content, teaching, and 21st - century skills", with 13 items. The variables "Attitude" and "Motivation" each contain 2 dimensions and 10 items respectively, which are "positive attitude and negative attitude", and "integrated motivation and instrumental motivation". To facilitate the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), the mean scores of all dimensions have been calculated and named according to their names in the data. The first 4 items in the data pertain to the demographic information that can be used to evaluate the sampling rationale of the study.
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In this study, a stratified sampling method was employed to ensure that participants were drawn representatively from universities of different levels. In the present research, three universities of Henan province of China were purposefully selected to represent different institutional levels—one key (high-ranking) university, one ordinary public university, and one private university. The sample size for the survey was determined in accordance with the guidelines proposed by Krejcie and Morgan (1970). Following the recommendations of Dillman, Smyth, and Christian (2014), the anticipated response rate for the online questionnaire was set between 50% and 70% to ensure a sufficient number of valid responses. To meet the minimum sample size requirement and account for potential nonresponses, a total of 1,200 students (approximately 400 from each university) were invited to participate through their instructors. The data collected from 592 undergraduate students were analyzed using SPSS 27.0 and AMOS 26. A series of statistical analyses were conducted to ensure the robustness and validity of the findings. First, descriptive statistics were calculated to provide an overview of the participants’ perceptions, attitudes, and motivational orientations toward College English learning. Second, reliability and validity analyses, including Cronbach’s alpha, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), were employed to verify the soundness of the measurement instruments. Finally, structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted to examine the hypothesized relationships among the constructs and to test the mediating effect of attitude between perception and motivation.