the Humanities and Social Sciences Project,China’s Ministry of Education(Grant Number:22YJA740016);the Key Project of Hubei Provincial Department of Education Philosophy and Social Science Research Fund(No.21ZD051);the Teaching and Research Fund of Hubei University of Technology(No.Xiao2022018).
While a plethora of studies has been conducted to explore demotivation and its impact on mental health in second language(L2)education,scanty research focuses on demotivation in L2 speaking learning.Particularly,littl...
This article is supported by the following projects:A Study on Individual Differences in Chinese Learning Needs and the Effect of Chinese Learning of International Students in Anhui Province(Grant No.SK2020A0034);A Study on the Effective Input and Output of Multimodal Synergy in College English Audio-video Classroom(Grant No.acjyyb2022078).
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