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Publication details [#65863]

Nomura, Kazuyuki and Rui Yuan. 2019. Long-term motivations for L2 learning: a biographical study from a situated learning perspective. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (2) : 164–178.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
foreign language proficiency | internet | L2-acquisition | language and culture | motivation | narrative | socialization
Language as a subject
Japanese
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

To grasp long-term motives for second language (L2) acquisition/socialisation, this inquiry assays the biographical narratives of 30 Hong Kong Chinese who are skilled in Japanese by employing ethnographic interviews, from a situated learning viewpoint.