Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-4 | Issue-01 | 21-28
Original Research Article
Constructing a Bilingual-Education Internship Management Platform to Explore Factors Influencing College Students’ Internship Outcome
Yee-Chia Hu
Published : Jan. 26, 2019
Abstract
The gap between knowledge and application has long been a widely-discussed topic in Taiwan, and finding solutions
thus remains critical in the academic field. With the educational experiment on the upswing, integrating internships into
regular college courses has demonstrated itself to be an effective way of closing that gap. With 37 participants taking an
internship course called Bilingual Education in a local university in Taiwan, this empirical study covered a 20-week class
experiments under the monitoring of action research in 2017. Surveys are administered to elicit the information about the
relationships between the implementation of the internship management platform and the students’ reactions. The result
shows that 3 out of the 5 paths calculated by the statistic tool are significant (*** 0.001). Students’ self-concept toward
the subject, the implementation of the internship management platform, and internship outcome positively affect each
other, but students’ English learning emotions, self-concept toward the subject, and internship outcome do not
significantly affect each other. It suggests that the internship management platform plays an essential role in promoting
students’ self-concept toward the subject and internship outcome. This study provides a new perspective on how college
internships can be used as highly credible indicators of student’s learning outcome.