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Longitudinal examination of university students’ foreign language enjoyment and foreign language classroom anxiety in the course of general English: latent growth curve modeling

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Pages 31-49 | Received 06 Nov 2017, Accepted 12 Feb 2018, Published online: 22 Feb 2018

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