Examining Hong Kong students' motivational beliefs, strategy use and their relations with two relational factors in classrooms

Educational Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 685-700

  Yin, Hongbiao ^a   Lee, John C K ^a   Zhang, Zhonghua ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hong Kong; Motivational beliefs; Relational factors in classroom; Strategy use

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350148437     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410903218844     Document Type: Article

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