Dynamics of the Self: A Multilevel Nested Systems Approach

Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 139-163

  Mercer, Sarah ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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