Links between Ethnolinguistic Affiliation, Self-related Motivation and Second Language Fluency: Are They Mediated by Psycholinguistic Variables?

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 172-192

  Segalowitz, Norman ^a,b   Gatbonton, Elizabeth ^a   Trofimovich, Pavel ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b Systematic Reviews Project Manager Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance   (Canada)

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