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Symposium – Perspectives on Motivation for Second Language Learning on the 50th Anniversary of Gardner & Lambert (1959)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2010

Peter MacIntyre*
Affiliation:
Cape Breton University, Canadapeter_macintyre@cbu.ca

Extract

Held at the Association canadienne de linguistique appliquée/Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Ottawa, Canada; 28 May 2009.

With the 50th anniversary of Robert C. Gardner and Wallace Lambert's seminal paper ‘Motivational variables in second language acquisition’ (Gardner & Lambert 1959), we paused to reflect on the contributions the work has inspired and the state of the art in the study of motivation research.

Type
Research in Progress
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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