The Roles of English Courses as Adjunct Non-Formal Education upon University Students english performanceud

摘要

In this modem time, education is getting more and more important. Nobody can survive to live in theudglobal environ..rnent without enough education. The roles of education these days are inevitable becauseudof the demand of job fields, competition in workplace and the ability to adapt with theenvironment.udEducation can be divided into two big areas which art' formal education and non-formal education. Bothudtypes of education can provide people with adequate skills to compete in many aspects of their lives.udEnglish course is an adjunct non-formal education for high school students. The purpose of this study isudto elaborate the roles of English courses upon first year university students' English capabilities. Fiftyudfirst year university students who had had taken English courses during their secondary educationaludyears and 50 additional first year students who had not taken the courses were selected to participate inudthe study. All of them had passed a quite hard enrollment to be accepted in the university, hence they alludcould be regarded as higher-than-average students in their intelligence. They then had to undergo anudEnglish test to measure their English performances in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. On theudaverage, students who had had taken English courses obtained better scores than their counterparts whoudhad not taken the courses, notably in listening and speaking, but in a lesser extent also in reading andudwriting. It was concluded that English courses as an adjunct non-formal education in English wereudadvantageous for the students, mainly in the aspects of listening and speaking.