Directed motivational currents: Energising language learning by creating intense motivational pathways

Language Learning and Language Teaching

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 9-29

  Dörnyei, Zoltán ^a   Muir, Christine ^a   Ibrahim, Zana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directed Motivational Current; eudemonic well being; goal setting; language learning motivation; vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 85126853538     PISSN: 15699471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/lllt.40.01dor     Document Type: Chapter

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