This study investigated student engagement by conceptualizing learning engagement and examining the inner mechanism that operates in the university English learning context. This study administered a questionnaire to 376 college students, and data analysis was conducted with SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0. The findings revealed that student engagement can be conceptualized into behavioral, cognitive, affective, and interactive engagement. The results confirmed that cognitive engagement positively affected behavioral engagement, whereas affective engagement did not. Affective engagement had positive effects on both cognitive engagement and interactive engagement. Interactive engagement positively affected cognitive engagement but did not affect behavioral engagement. Further, the results showed that cognitive engagement acted as a full mediator between affective engagement and behavioral engagement, as well as between interactional engagement and behavioral engagement. The findings of this study propose implications for optimizing English teaching to facilitate student engagement and ultimately enhancing their learning satisfaction along with improving academic outcomes.

1. INTRODUCTION
2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESIS
    2.1. Definition of Student Engagement
    2.2. Constructs of Student Engagement
3. METHODOLOGY
    3.1. Participants
    3.2. Data Collection
    3.3. Instrument
    3.4. Data Analysis
4. RESULTS
    4.1. Current Situation of Student Engagement
    4.2. Hypothesis Test
5. DISCUSSION
6. CONCLUSION
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• Xiaohui Zhang(Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, Shangqiu Normal University)
• Hyun-Ju Kim(Professor, Department of British and American Humanities, Dankook University; 152, Jukjeon-ro, Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 16890, Korea) Corresponding author