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Social Identity and Language Learning Motivation: Exploring the Connection and Activating Learning

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International Perspectives on Motivation

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Immigrant pathways to the language classroom are manifold. Some may have arrived in their new homeland as children and now need additional training to enhance the quality of their language. Others may have come later in life with some rudimentary exposure to their second language, but with an educational degree, a career in their native country and the presence of learning skills and strategies they entail. Still others might have come without much prior schooling and are now building their strength in their second language from the ground up.

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Igoudin, L. (2013). Social Identity and Language Learning Motivation: Exploring the Connection and Activating Learning. In: Ushioda, E. (eds) International Perspectives on Motivation. International Perspectives on English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137000873_11

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