Understanding successful and unsuccessful EFL students in Chinese universities

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Strategic Processing in Grammar Learning: Do Multilinguals Use More Strategies? (2007, background): “There has also been a focus on how strategies relate to success in language learning (e.g. Gan et al., 2004; for a review see Oxford & Burry-Stock, 1995) and sociopsychological variables such as motivation and effect (e.g. Nunan, 1997; for an overview see Dörnyei, 2005; 2006), rather than…”
‘Asian learners’ re-examined: an empirical study of language learning attitudes, strategies and motivation among mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students (2009, background): “The university English course in mainland China is in fact a language enhancement course, which has been generally considered ineffective (Gan 2003; Gan, Humphreys, and Hamp-Lyons 2004).”
The learning styles and strategies of effective language learners (2011, background): “In a follow-up study, Gan et al. (2004) carried out a qualitative investigation into the attitudes and strategies of nine successful and nine unsuccessful Chinese learners of English as a foreign language.”
Self-regulated out-of-class language learning with technology (2011, unknown): “Studies have also suggested a positive association between out-of-class learning and language gains (Gan, Humphreys, & Hamp-Lyons, 2004 ; Inozu, Sahinkarakas, & Yumru, 2010 ; Shen Tseng, Kuo, Su, & Chen, 2005 ).”