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The goal of this study is to find out if any changes occur in EFL learners’ anxiety and motivation between before and after a content-based intensive EFL program, which is a sort of CBI. The study is a replication study of Hwang (2002), and the results of the two studies are compared. Hwang (2002) reported that through a college CBI course, learners’ anxiety was lowered and the motivation of the utilitarian goal orientation increased significantly but that of the mastery or learning and the ego-social orientation didn’t. The current study finds the followings: 1) learners’ anxiety level gets lowered. to a greater extent than the results obtained in Hwang’s study; 2) only the motivation of the ego-social goal orientation increases significantly while the motivation of the other two types do not. The different results between the two studies are attributed to the different nature of the program of each study. The intensive immersion program of CBI lets learners have more social interactions, and thus get motivated through the ego-social orientation. In turn, it raises integrative motivation. We conclude that universities should run a CBI program in various forms to help students get motivated through various goal orientations.