Understanding EFL Learners’ Motivational Dynamics: A Three-Level Model from a Dynamic Systems and Sociocultural Perspective

Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 285-314

  Yashima, Tomoko ^a   Arano, Kumiko ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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