Motivation and Test Anxiety in Test Performance Across Three Testing Contexts: The CAEL, CET, and GEPT

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 300-330

  Cheng, Liying ^a   Klinger, Don ^a   Fox, Janna ^b   Doe, Christine ^c   Jin, Yan ^d   Wu, Jessica ^e  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Language Training and Testing Center   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84901191527     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tesq.105     Document Type: Article

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