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The Dynamics of Demotivation and Remotivation among Chinese Students in Learning English: Insights from a Q Methodology Study
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Yanhong Ma – SAGE Open, 2025
Research on language motivation has tended to focus on the phenomena of demotivation and remotivation in the English classroom. This study utilized Q methodology to analyze the dynamics of demotivation and remotivation among 15 Chinese university students during their English learning process from primary school to senior middle school. Informed…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Q Methodology, College Students
How Do Language Learning, Teaching, and Transnational Experiences (Re)Shape an EFLer's Identities? A Critical Ethnographic Narrative
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Gao, Yang – SAGE Open, 2021
Using critical ethnographic narrative as a tool and language socialization as the theoretical stance, the article analyzes excerpts of a language teacher's life experience and presents findings to join the existing literature. The article indicates that: (1) transnational teacher identities develop in a multiple-identity system including…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
New Media and the Development of Education Sector: Appraisal of Selected Schools
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Udoudo, Aniefiok J.; Ojo, Gbemisola O. – SAGE Open, 2016
This study appraised the use of the new media by students in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to identify extent of use of new media and to find out challenges experienced while using new media for learning in schools in the Local Government Area. The study adopted survey and quasi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Use Studies, Technology Uses in Education