Willingness to communicate in the second language: Understanding the decision to speak as a volitional process

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 564-576

  MacIntyre, Peter D ^a  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 35848929073     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2007.00623.x     Document Type: Article

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