Primary and secondary students' motivation in learning English: Grade and gender differences

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 246-256

  Yeung, Alexander Seeshing ^a,b   Lau, Shun ^c   Nie, Youyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gender; Motivation; Primary education; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957732457     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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