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Direct linkDörnyei, Zoltán; Chan, Letty – Language Learning, 2013
Recent theorizing on second language (L2) motivation has proposed viewing motivation as a function of the language learners' vision of their desired future language selves. This would suggest that the intensity of motivation is partly dependent on the learners' capability to generate mental imagery. In order to test this hypothesis, this study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Questionnaires, Surveys, Mandarin Chinese
