Motivational dynamics in language learning: Change, stability, and context

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 704-723

  Waninge, Freerkien ^a   Dörnyei, Zoltán ^a   De Bot, Kees ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classroom based research; Emergentism; Foreign language (FL) learning; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908229494     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/modl.12118     Document Type: Article

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