The Baby, the Bathwater, and the Future of Language Learning Motivation Research

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-65

  MacIntyre, Peter D ^a   Mackinnon, Sean P ^b   Clément, Richard ^c  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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