Learning Experiences, Selves and Motivated Learning Behaviour: A Comparative Analysis of Structural Models for Hungarian Secondary and University Learners of English

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 98-119

  Csizér, Kata ^a   Kormos, Judit ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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