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                                Chapter 5
 Table 5.5 Correlation analysis of engagement and level of importance
  Importance
Language Personal development
Engagement & disaffection
 Literature
.088 .412**
|
Emotional Behavioural engagement engagement
.128* .034 .311** .273**
.588** .482** | .526**
| -.192**
| .315**
|
  Language
Personal development
Literature
Emotional engagement
Behavioural engagement
Emotional disaffection
Behavioural disaffection
|
.286** |
Emotional Behavioural disaffection disaffection
-.075 -.007 -.141** -.241**
-.271** -.420** -.360** -.467**
-.655**
 *p< .05; ** p< .01
Of the three factors, the Literature factor showed the strongest positive significant correlation with the level of emotional and behavioural engagement (r = .588, p < .000 and r = .482, p < .000, respectively). The Literature factor also showed the strongest negative significant correlation with the level of emotional and behavioural disaffection (r = -.271, p < .000 and r = -.420, p < .000, respectively). Thus, of the three factors, the Literature factor has the strongest positive relation to the level of student engagement and the strongest negative relation to the level of student disaffection. This indicates that students who find Literature factor elements important generally show a high level of engagement and a low level of disaffection.
The Personal Development factor also showed small positive significant correlations with the level of emotional and behavioural engagement (r = .311, p < .000 and r = .273, p < .000, respectively). For this factor, we also found a small negative significant correlation with the level of emotional and behavioural disaffection (r = -.141, p < .008 and r = -.241, p < .000, respectively). The generally small significant correlations between level of engagement and the Personal Development factor suggest that students who find this factor important generally show a moderate level of engagement and disaffection.
The Language factor only showed one small significant positive correlation with emotional engagement (r = .128, p < .017). The general lack of significant
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