Motivation, gender, and possible selves

Language Learning

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-295

  Henry, Alastair ^a   Cliffordson, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gender; L2 motivation; L3 selves; Multilinguals; Possible selves; Self construal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884413874     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lang.12009     Document Type: Article

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