Arabic Heritage Language Learners: motivation, expectations, competence, and engagement in learning Arabic

This paper investigates motivation, outcome expectations, competence and engagement of Arabic heritage learners. Fifty students belonging to two distinct groups participated in this study. The first group is comprised of heritage learners coming from Arabic speaking homes (Arab HLLs) while the secon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghassan Husseinali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
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Online Access:http://www.ncolctl.org/files/Arabic-heritage.pdf