Intercultural Communication Lab members Nigel Lou and Kim Noels have published a new article: Western and heritage cultural internalizations predict EFL students’ language motivation and confidence.
This article explores the relationship between attachment and motivation to learn English as a foreign language and finds that a strong attachment to Western culture is linked to greater motivation to learn EFL. More surprisingly, when a student doesn’t feel very attached to Western culture, a stronger attachment to heritage culture is also important for EFL motivation. To read more, click here.