Author(s)

Li Mengying ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Guangdong Institute of Arts and Sciences, No.78 Jiuzhoujiang Avenue, Lianjiang, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Corresponding Author

Li Mengying

ABSTRACT

Despite a series of empirical studies by Gao (2003; 2004; 2007) and her research group, they are devoted to the study of college students' English learning motivation and the change of self-identity. The research mainly focused on the undergraduate and graduate students. However, there are few research on self-identity of junior college students. This research has focused on self-identity, to a certain one of the private college English major students in the qualitative investigation, using 6 kinds of identity change analysis of college English learner's self-identity changes. Through the above correlation analysis, it can be concluded that the research object Jelly's intrinsic interest was more strongly associated with productive, additive change. That is, the stronger the intrinsic interest in English and English culture, the more likely it is that both productive and additive changes in self-identity will occur; and these two changes will in turn stimulate learners' intrinsic interest in English culture.

KEYWORDS

English learningn, Self-identity, junior college students

CITE THIS PAPER

Li Mengying, A case study of Chinese college students' self-identity changes in English learning. Applied & Educational Psychology (2023) Vol. 4: 20-25. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2023.040703.

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