Motivation of Students Majoring Chinese: An Exploratory Study

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Motivation of Students Majoring Chinese: An Exploratory Study

This research reports on a qualitative investigation into what shaped and sustained the motivation of L1-Chinese learners of English. Motivation was not constrained to L2 learning but extended to what the participants considered as the dynamic interplay of personal and contextual factors. What make...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Li, Leying
Format:	Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	student motivation Chinese CFL
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27010/

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