This study investigated the role of competition in academic settings by conceptualizing competitive engagement and examining how competition self-efficacy defined as confidence in one’s ability to outperform others could mediate learner engagement and self-determination to learn English as a foreign language (EFL). Within the context of a videoconference EFL course, a cross-sectional research design was employed during the fourth semester of remote teaching in South Korea due to COVID-19. Statistically significant relationships existed among variables. Students reported high levels of cognitive and behavioral engagement but low levels of competitive engagement. Through structural modeling, competitive engagement emerged as a conceptually unique form of engagement. The relationship between competitive engagement and selfdetermination to learn English when attending an EFL videoconference course was fully mediated by competition self-efficacy. Partial mediation was observed in the relationship between cognitive engagement and self-determination. These findings suggest that both competitive and cognitive engagement are powerful indicators of learning outcomes, especially when learning EFL.

1. INTRODUCTION
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
    2.1. Theoretical Framework
    2.2. Self-Determination to Learn English as a Foreign Language
    2.3. Cognitive Engagement
    2.4. Behavioral Engagement
    2.5. Competitive Engagement
    2.6. Competition Self-efficacy
    2.7. Mediation
    2.8. Proposed Model
3. METHODOLOGY
    3.1. Overview
    3.2. Participants
    3.3. Learning Environment: Emergency Remote Teaching with VideoConferencing
    3.4. Study Questionnaire
    3.5. Procedures
    3.6. Data Analysis
4. RESULTS
    4.1. Study Model
    4.2. Structural Model
5. DISCUSSION
6. SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
    6.1. Summary
    6.2. Implications
REFERENCES

• Daniel Bailey(Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Culture, Konkuk University Glocal Campus)
• Rhea Metituk(Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Liberal Arts, Myongji University)
• Andrea Rakushin-Lee(Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Ausin Peay University)
• Frank Bennett(Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Culture, Konkuk University Glocal Campus) Corresponding Author