A. Joshua

Linguistic Identity, Drive, and Scholastic Performance: An Investigation into the Cognitive-Affective Determinants of Second-Language Acquisition among Yorùbá-Speaking Learners

The relationship between how learners see themselves as speakers of their mother tongue and how well they go on to acquire a second language remains one of the more contested questions in applied linguistics. This paper takes up that question in the specific context of Yorùbá-speaking learners of English in southwester...