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

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Research in Progress
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Language Teaching , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 374 - 377
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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