Robert Gardner is one of the leading researchers in the area of L2 motivation and he focussed on attitudes. The first stage of the research identifies the characteristics of a sample of GCSE Arabic students and investigating whether the backgrounds of this sample correspond to current theoretical conceptualisations of heritage language learners. Outside of the traditional universities, but also increasingly within these, German was learned for career purposes Ortmanns f. This German course is suitable for total beginners to teach them basic grammar, phrases and vocabulary used in common, everyday situations. The questionnaire, based on the interviews, was made up of six categories of items: wish for language proficiency, intrinsic reasons, ideal self, instrumental reasons, integrative reasons, and ought-to self Busse and Williams p.
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