'French is the language of love and stuff': Student perceptions of issues related to motivation in learning a foreign language

British Educational Research Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 503-528

  Williams, Marion ^a   Burden, Robert ^a   Lanvers, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0036025481     PISSN: 01411926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141192022000005805     Document Type: Article

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