This thesis reports how a vision of an ideal self as a speaker of English in the imagined global community where English is being used as lingua franca (ELF) by a vastly growing number of non-native English speakers (NNESs) for a wider communication alongside their L1, positively influences Taiwanese students' engagement in learning English in an exam-dominant context
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Submitted to the School of Education of the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2009
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