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- Title
Underachievement and Its Causes in EFL Learning in China's Non-government Universities.
- Authors
Fei Ma
- Abstract
The paper first introduced the origin of academic underachievement and the underachieving phenomenon in China's non-government HEIs. After a discussion of the concept of underachievement, a definition for underachievement in EFL learning is given. Then the paper reviews the relevant theories interpreting the phenomenon of underachievement. At last, the key factors giving rise to students' underachievement in EFL learning are explored under the context of non-government HEIs in mainland China. It is assumed that prior attainment, learning motivation, educational strategy and peers' effect are the four key factors that give rise to students' underachievement in English learning.
- Subjects
UNDERACHIEVEMENT; ENGLISH as a foreign language; UNDERACHIEVERS; CHINESE students; EDUCATIONAL evaluation
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 4, p808
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/jltr.0704.24