paraphrase: To ensure the reliability of the questionnaire, a pilot study was carried out among 27 non-English majors who have experience of taking online college English classes. Data from these participants were collected via “Questionnaire Star”, and then were coded and entered into SPSS 27.0 for analysis. The Cronbach Alpha coefficients of the subscales as well as that of the whole questionnaire were calculated. Reliability results for three variables under investigation appeared in Table 1, which illustrated that the Cronbach Alpha coefficients of all the subscales ranged from 0.835 to 0.927. Also, the Cronbach Alpha of the whole questionnaire reached 0.984. Therefore, the internal consistency reliability coefficients of the subscales and the whole questionnaire were acceptable as they were over 0.70 (Dörnyei & Taguchi, 2010).