Kurdish adolescents acquiring Turkish: Their self-determined motivation and identification with L1 and L2 communities as predictors of L2 accent attainment

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 745-763

  Polat, Nihat ^a   Schallert, Diane L ^b  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Kurdish; L2 accent attainment; L2 identity; L2 motivation; Turkish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882638832     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2013.12033.x     Document Type: Article

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