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Publication details [#47736]

Ryan, Stephen. 2006. Language Learning Motivation within the Context of Globalisation: An L2 Self within an Imagined Global Community. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 3 (1) : 23–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | globalization | motivation | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Annotation

This article presents a model of language learning motivation within the context of globalization that puts at its core the learner's real identity as member of an imagined global community, and an evident vision of an ideal language-employing self.