Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Historical Overview of English Learning in South Korea: The 19th Century and Japanese Colonization -- Chapter 3 Historical Overview of English Learning in South Korea: The U.S. Military Government, Korean War, and Post-War Reconstruction Period -- Chapter 4 A Historical Overview of English Learning in South Korea: An Era of Economic and Cultural Prosperity from the 1990s to the 2010s -- Chapter 5 History of English Learning and Its Motivation in Other East Asian Countries -- Chapter 6 Recent Advances in EFL (De)Motivation Theory -- Chapter 7 Sociohistorical Genesis of Korean EFL Learners’ English Learning Motivation -- Chapter 8 Conclusion.

This book clarifies the fundamental difference between North America-based instrumental motivation and Korea (and East Asia)-specific competitive motivation by which the EFL learners’ excessive competition to be admitted to famous universities and to be hired at a large-scale conglomerate is the main source of L2 motivation. It enables readers to understand that EFL-learning motivation reflects unique sociohistorical contexts grounded in a specific region or country. This book in turn necessitates the need to develop EFL motivation theory and research tradition which are firmly based on East Asian values and culture. .