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Throughout the interview sessions of listening to the participants on their past, present, and transformative academic English learning experience in and outside the school settings and their reflections on the influence of schooling for meaning, seven findings were established. These findings, which were elicited from the participant voices, crystalize in the following parallel subheadings, encompassing, and addressing the purpose of this interview study.
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Rao, X. (2018). Crystalization of Themes. In: University English for Academic Purposes in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0647-1_7
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