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Attitudes and motivation in English language learning amongst multilingual university students in the Balearic Islands: the effect of the L1 and other influential variables

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Pages 475-490 | Received 22 Dec 2017, Accepted 16 Sep 2018, Published online: 05 Oct 2018

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