‘Directed Motivational Currents’: Regulating Complex Dynamic Systems through Motivational Surges

Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 95-106

  Dörnyei, Zoltán ^a   Ibrahim, Zana ^a   Muir, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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