'Your mum and dad can't teach you!': Constraints on agency among rural learners of English in the developing world

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-29

  Lamb, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; Ideal L2 self; language learning; motivation; parental support; structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871905775     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2012.697467     Document Type: Article

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