Motivation and gender in the Japanese EFL classroom

System

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 194-210

  Mori, Setsuko ^a,b   Gobel, Peter ^a,b  

^a KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Expectancy value theory; Gender; Individual differences; Motivation; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744519334     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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