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A Case Study of Three EFL Learners 　　【Abstract】 This study is a sample to reflect the current learning situations of senior high school students on learning English. Through interviewing three level students, this study reveals that interests, acquisition and learning, and anxiety are the factors that influence students’ EFL attainment. 　　【Key words】Case study, three EFL learners, EFL attainment 　　1. Subjects 　　In order to represent each level of language proficiency, several subjects were selected. However, this is a sample that reflects the current learning situations of senior high school students on learning English. Thus, three subjects, taught by the same teacher are chosen in this study and each subject presents each level of language proficiency. Although one student is from Class 7, and the other two students are from Class 8, there exist little differences, since the teacher is the same, and the research purpose is mainly to know how the high-level student, middle-level student and low-level student learn the foreign language. The classroom environment may not necessarily have a positive correlation of language proficiency, in most natural conditions, the positive correlation exists. 　　The three subjects are willing to cooperate with the researcher throughout the whole interview, and the researcher asked the teacher how well these subjects did in the class, which is beneficial for the understanding of their language learning experience. 　　Subject 1 is a girl, and she is from class 8, low-level. At the outset before she entered the senior high school, subject 1 has possessed a limited vocabulary and grammatical knowledge. Subject 2 is also a girl from class 8, middle-level. She has mastered the basic linguistic knowledge, but she has some trouble with reading comprehension confidently. Subject 3 is a girl from class 7, high-level. She usually is among the five students who had the highest scores in English in her class. Compared with the subject 1