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Publication details [#65965]

Calafato, Raees and Fei Tang. 2019. The status of Arabic, superdiversity, and language learning motivation among non-Arab expats in the Gulf. Lingua 219 : 24–38.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
competition | foreign language acquisition | L3-acquisition | motivation | multilingualism | teenager
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
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Annotation

Competitiveness positively impacts motivation to be multilingual of non-Arab expat teenagers in UK curriculum schools in the United Arab Emirates. They are most motivated to acquire English and languages other than English (LOTEs), whilst Arabic is chiefly approached in functional terms.