As successors of the new era, college students' ideological and moral quality is related to the development and prosperity of our country. English majors are extremely important to the development of China's diplomatic cause. As the main position of ideological and political education for college students, ideological and political course has become a compulsory course for every college student. In recent years, scholars attach great importance to the research on learning engagement, and several researchers have carried out research on students' learning engagement in ideological and political theory course. Based on the three-dimensional model of Fredricks et al., using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, this study aims at 91 English Majors in a university of foreign languages to explore the current situation and influencing factors of English majors' learning engagement in ideological and political theory course through questionnaire, semi-structured interview, note analysis and classroom observation. The research shows that English majors extend certain behavioral engagement, emotional engagement and cognitive engagement in ideological and political theory course. Besides, learning engagement is influenced by personal factors such as interest in the curriculum itself, the help of the curriculum to the future development, as well as contextual factors such as the way of performance evaluation and the learning atmosphere of peers. This study not only enriches the research field of learning engagement, but also provides feasible suggestions for teachers to better design courses and improve students' learning engagement in ideological and political theory course.

Liu Zhuoting. A study on learning engagement of English majors in the ideological and political theory course. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 7: 146-154. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.070722.

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