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"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Motivating Continuation of Languages in Secondary School
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Absalom, Matthew – Babel, 2011
In a period of renewed efforts to encourage language study in Australia, with a particular view to increasing the number of students completing secondary school and studying a language, consideration of the reasons behind retention and attrition of students becomes paramount. In this preliminary study, which surveyed nearly 200 students entering…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Gender Discrimination