The L2 Motivational Self System among Japanese, Chinese and Iranian Learners of English: A Comparative Study

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 66-97

  Taguchi, Tatsuya ^a   Magid, Michael ^a   Papi, Mostafa ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

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