“…Since then, the research on motivation in learning a language, especially English as a foreign language (EFL), has been overwhelming. In recent years, this subject has still drawn the interest of many researchers, demonstrated by a substantial number of published articles (e.g., Cheng & Cheng, 2013;Aldosari, 2014;Jodaei et al, 2018;Lei & Levitan, 2020;Meng, 2021;Javidkar et al, 2022;Waluyo & Bakoko, 2022;Ali et al, 2023;Siekmann et al, 2023;Nizigama et al, 2023). Vietnamese EFL students' motivation and its related aspects are no exception.…”