At a second meeting arranged by a fly, bee, hare, bear, mouse and deer homonyms and pronunciation of the English language are the main topic of a lengthy discussion. The sun and alittle elephant are observers listening to the discussion. Each animal gives their opinion about the situation and presents a number of problems andconclusions. The elephant is having a lot of thoughts about everything himself. In the end he comes to very wise decisions while the sun, who has been the other observer, is very happy with the ending. They both feel great about this most unusual day. The fly thinks that a list of references about English homonyms would be very helpful to everyone for pronunciation and spelling. She creates 130 samples to refer to and encourages English studying students to search for more on the internet. These samples are translated into four different languages: French, German, Italian and Spanish plus lists of pages for languages not covered.

This study explores the field of EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom learning within three formal learning institutions in Beijing. Via questionnaires and reflective journals, this book examines various aspects of Chinese EFL learners’ anxiety, motivation, English-learning and test-taking strategy use, and the interactive effect of these variables on their achievements in English: manifestations, general patterns, differences in terms of gender, proficiency level and learning contexts, coping strategies and so on. Complicated statistical analyses, coupled with content thematic analyses, reveal that (1) around a third of the respondents experienced anxiety in English class; (2) the respondents were (highly) motivated both instrumentally and integratively to learn English, and were generally more instrumentally than integratively motivated; (3) the participants had a medium use of English learning and test-taking strategies; (4) among the six categories of English-learning strategies, compensation and memory strategies were the most and least frequently used respectively; while mixed findings were revealed about the use of the six categories of English test-taking strategies; (5) significant differences existed in most of the measured variables among the samples from different universities and among those at different proficiency levels; (6) mixed findings were found concerning gender differences in the measured variables; (7) the measured variables generally significantly correlated with one another and the students’ performance in English; and (8) the SEM results of the four samples were generally similar, however, some striking differences existed due to certain reasons.

At a second meeting arranged by a fly, bee, hare, bear, mouse and deer homonyms and pronunciation of the English language are the main topic of a lengthy discussion. The sun and alittle elephant are observers listening to the discussion. Each animal gives their opinion about the situation and presents a number of problems andconclusions. The elephant is having a lot of thoughts about everything himself. In the end he comes to very wise decisions while the sun, who has been the other observer, is very happy with the ending. They both feel great about this most unusual day. The fly thinks that a list of references about English homonyms would be very helpful to everyone for pronunciation and spelling. She creates 130 samples to refer to and encourages English studying students to search for more on the internet. These samples are translated into four different languages: French, German, Italian and Spanish plus lists of pages for languages not covered.