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Publication details [#65160]

Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Pitchayapa Siridetkoon. 2018. Ideal self and ought-to self of simultaneous learners of multiple foreign languages. The International Journal of Multilingualism 15 (4) : 313–328.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | motivation | multilingualism | student | university

Language as a subject

Chinese | English | Japanese | Korean

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This inquiry examines the motivation of five university students who concurrently studied L2 English and extra L3s (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) in a language specialist major in a Thai university. It tries to begin filling the lacuna in study on the motivation of various language learners across their distinct languages.