The effect of multilingualism, sociobiographical, and situational factors on communicative anxiety and foreign language anxiety of mature language learners

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 391-409

  Dewaele, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

age; individual differences; number of languages known; second language learning; sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249154654     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13670069070110040301     Document Type: Article

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