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Oct 2022
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Katarina Mentzelopoulos on Exceptionalis...

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Join our free teacherpreneur community.  Katarina Mentzelopoulos is an ESRC-funded Ph.D. student at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include language learning motivation, exceptional language learning, multilingualism and learner identity. She recently co-authored two books with the late Zoltán Dörnyei: Stories from Exceptional Langu ... Show More
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