An empirical examination of factors affecting college students’ proactive stickiness with a web-based English learning environment

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Highlights:

• Based on the SCT and U&G theory, an integrated theoretical model is developed.

• The results integrate findings of cognitive science & mass communication research.

• The cognitive, technology and social factors are identified as critical determinants.

• The proposed determinants significantly affect students’ learning gratifications.

• The identified critical factors impact students’ proactive stickiness with WBEL.

摘要

•Based on the SCT and U&G theory, an integrated theoretical model is developed.•The results integrate findings of cognitive science & mass communication research.•The cognitive, technology and social factors are identified as critical determinants.•The proposed determinants significantly affect students’ learning gratifications.•The identified critical factors impact students’ proactive stickiness with WBEL.

论文关键词:Proactive stickiness,Uses and gratifications theory,Social cognitive theory,Learning gratifications,Web-based English learning

论文评审过程:Available online 2 November 2013.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.040