Two articles about second language learning in nonnative students

Le, Jiayong (2004).  Affective characteristics of American students studying Chinese in China: A study of heritage and non-heritage learners' beliefs and foreign language anxiety. Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, United States -- Texas. Retrieved January 26, 2010, from Dissertations & Theses: Full Text.(Publication No. AAT 3150676).

Loewen, S., Shaofeng, L. I., Fei, F. E. I., Thompson, A. M. Y., Nakatsukasa, K. I. M. I., Seongmee, A. H. N., and Xiaoqing, C. H. E. N. (2009). Second language learners' beliefs about grammar instruction and error correction. The Modern Language Journal, 93(1):91-104.