{"product_id":"affective-and-cognitive-factors-and-meihua-liu-9781425185381","title":"Affective and Cognitive Factors and Foreign Language Achievement","description":"This study explores the field of EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom learning within three formal learning institutions in Beijing. Via questionnaires and reflective journals, this book examines various aspects of Chinese EFL learners' anxiety, motivation, English-learning and test-taking strategy use, and the interactive effect of these variables on their achievements in English: manifestations, general patterns, differences in terms of gender, proficiency level and learning contexts, coping strategies and so on. Complicated statistical analyses, coupled with content thematic analyses, reveal that (1) around a third of the respondents experienced anxiety in English class; (2) the respondents were (highly) motivated both instrumentally and integratively to learn English, and were generally more instrumentally than integratively motivated; (3) the participants had a medium use of English learning and test-taking strategies; (4) among the six categories of English-learning strategies, compensation and memory strategies were the most and least frequently used respectively; while mixed findings were revealed about the use of the six categories of English test-taking strategies; (5) significant differences existed in most of the measured variables among the samples from different universities and among those at different proficiency levels; (6) mixed findings were found concerning gender differences in the measured variables; (7) the measured variables generally significantly correlated with one another and the students' performance in English; and (8) the SEM results of the four samples were generally similar, however, some striking differences existed due to certain reasons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meihua Liu,Wenxia Zhang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 142518538X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781425185381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trafford Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Meihua Liu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48436489552127,"sku":"9781425185381","price":23.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b09c142-024a-4f6f-9d4a-3ad05b473529.jpg?v=1777156880","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/affective-and-cognitive-factors-and-meihua-liu-9781425185381","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}