Table 4.

Descriptive statistics of Guizhou students' conceptions of learning English (N = 345).

Factors	Min	Max	Mean	S.D.	Variance
Meeting the Requirements (MR)	1.00	5.00	2.73	0.88	0.77
Memorizing (Me)	1.00	5.00	2.95	0.71	0.51
Testing (Te)	1.00	5.00	2.60	0.78	0.61
Drills and Practice (DP)	2.00	5.00	3.64	0.54	0.29
Increasing Knowledge (IK)	2.00	5.00	3.65	0.63	0.39
Applying (Ap)	2.00	5.00	3.44	0.57	0.33
Understanding (Und)	2.00	5.00	3.54	0.61	0.37
Seeing in a New Way (Se)	2.00	5.00	3.84	0.58	0.33