Motivation and english achievement: An exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of a new measure for Chinese students of english learning

North American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 633-646

  Wang, FengXia ^a  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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