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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The background of the study
1.2 The significance of the study
1.3 The structure of the thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Motivation and demotivation
2.2 A brief review of the history of second langauge motivaiton research
2.2.1 Social psychological theories of second language motivation
2.2.2 Cognitive theories of second language motivation
2.2.3 Education-friendly theories of second langague motivation
2.2.4 Process theories of second langauage motivation
2.2.5 A recent development: L2 Motivational Self System
2.3 Previous studies on demotivation
2.3.1 Teacher's influence on students' motivation and demotivation
2.3.2 Factors influencing motivaiton in second langague learning
2.3.3 Demotivating experiences and self-motivating
2.3.4 Teacher-related demotivating factors identified by Oxford
2.3.5 D(o)rnyei's framework of demotivating factors
2.3.6 Wang and Malderez's study on demotivated students
2.3.7 Comments on previous studies on demotivation
Chapter Three Research Design
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Subjects
3.3 Data collection instruments
3.4 Procedures
Chapter Four Data Presentation and Discussion
4.1 The seriousness of the problem of demotivation
4.2 Students' perceived sources of demotivation
4.2.1 Internal attributions: learner characteristics
4.2.2 External attributions
4.3 The influence of different demotives
4.4 Gender differences in demotives
4.5 Re-motivating factors
4.6 Teachers' perspective on demotivation
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Main findings
5.2 Implications for English pedagogy
5.3 Limitations
5.4 Further research suggestions
Bibliography
Appendices
