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References

Week 1
Hadfield, J. and Dörnyei, Z. (2013) Motivating Learning, Routledge, London and New York.
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Week 2
DeKeyser, R.M. (ed.) (2007) Practice in a Second Language: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology, New York, Cambridge University Press.
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Week 3
Rosell-Aguilar, F. (2017) ‘State of the app: a taxonomy and framework for evaluating language learning mobile applications’, CALICO Journal, vol. 34, no. 2.
Week 6
Goulden, R., Nation, P. and Read, J. (1990) ‘How large can a receptive vocabulary be?’, Applied Linguistics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 341–63.
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