Motivation and English achievement: an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of a new measure for Chinese students of English learning.(Report)

North American Journal of Psychology | December 1, 2008| | Copyright

In the field of second language acquisition (SLA) there have been various attempts to define second language acquisition motivation and to discover the relationship between motivation and English achievement. It has been argued that learning a second language differs from learning other school subjects because of its social nature (Dornyei, 2003). Many theories of language learning motivation tend to be social-psychological, among which the most influential is Gardner's socio-educational model, including attitudes, motivations and anxiety variables (Gardner, 1988; Gardner, ...

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