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In this article published in the British newspaper The Guardian, linguist Alison Mackey overviews the subject of motivation in language learning.
Read MoreRivertown is Peter Hessler's memoir of living and teaching in rural Sichuan province as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1990s. It is one of the most widely read accounts in the English-speaking world of living in China as a foreigner.
Read MoreExcerpts from Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers: Building Vision in the Language Classroom, by Zoltan Dornyei and Magdalena Kubanyiova.
Read MoreA collection of first-person autobiographical narratives written by scholars about the process of language learning.
A short personal essay in which author Yiyun Li describes her childhood in 1980s Beijing and the origins of her desire to study English.
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