An Investigation of Factors Affecting Early Foreign Language Learning in the Netherlands

*SHARON UNSWORTH, LIV PERSSON, TINEKE PRINS and KEES DE BOT Department of Languages, Literature and Communication and Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of English, University of the Free State, South Africa *E-mail: s.unsworth@uu.nl

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