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Whose goal emphases play a more important role in ESL/EFL learners’ motivation, self-regulated learning and achievement?: Teachers’ or parents’

Jing Wanga College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, ChinaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9262-5133View further author information
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Barry Baib The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ho Tim Building, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T, Hong KongCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 520-542 | Received 29 Jun 2021, Accepted 12 Jan 2022, Published online: 07 Feb 2022

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