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Comparative Summary of Qu’s and Gao’s papers on Language and Identity Changes in ChinaI. Introduction Since the last decade of the 20th century, Gao Yihong from Beijing University and her associates have carried out a series of academic researches on English learning and the corresponding identity changes of the language learners in China. They supposed that the social psychological changes of the learners was of significance in influencing the learners’ language proficiency when they were learning the foreign language, and their identity would be (re)constructed on the process. Their ta