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Conduah, Aloysius N. 2019. Social Imperatives for Destination Language Learning. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 50 (2) : 112–140.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
destination language learning | economic motivation | foreign language proficiency | immigrant | language acquisition | motivation | social motivation | workplace conversation
Language as a subject
Languages, South African, Indigenous
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses economic and social motivation for immigrants’ destination language learning. The data involve 100 Ghanaian immigrants living in Johannesburg learning South African indigenous languages.