The role of motivarion and age in vocabulary knowledge

Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-62

  Fernández Fontecha, Almudena ^a   Terrazas Gallego, Melania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Motivation; Receptive vocabulary size; Secondary education and English as a foreign language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858611911     PISSN: 16970381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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