This paper is a report of a survey study of secondary school students' EFL learning motivation in North Jiangsu. Several motivational theories other than Gardner's traditional social-psychological approach hav...This paper is a report of a survey study of secondary school students' EFL learning motivation in North Jiangsu. Several motivational theories other than Gardner's traditional social-psychological approach have been exploited in the design of the questionnaire in the hope of better describing EFL learning motivation in a situation-specific context from different perspectives and checking the validity of various motivational theories in explaining EFL learning motivation in China.展开更多
文摘This paper is a report of a survey study of secondary school students' EFL learning motivation in North Jiangsu. Several motivational theories other than Gardner's traditional social-psychological approach have been exploited in the design of the questionnaire in the hope of better describing EFL learning motivation in a situation-specific context from different perspectives and checking the validity of various motivational theories in explaining EFL learning motivation in China.