Self and Identity in L2 Motivation in Japan: The Ideal L2 Self and Japanese Learners of English

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 120-143

  Ryan, Stephen ^a  

^a SEITOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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