'Why do you learn English?' 'Because the teacher is short a study of Hungarian children's foreign language learning motivation

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-56

  Nikolov, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

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EID: 0346863087     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136216889900300103     Document Type: Article

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