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Publication details [#66363]

Huang, Shu-Chen. 2019. Learning experience reigns – Taiwanese learners’ motivation in learning eight additional languages as compared to English. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (7) : 576–589.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | language acquisition | motivation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This inquiry explored Taiwanese learners’ motivation for three language clusters – Southeast Asian (Vietnamese, Thai and Malay), Northeast Asian (Japanese and Korean) and European (German, Spanish and French) – and compared the results against the same learners’ English learning motivation.