INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND INTERNET RESOURCES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Despite the vast research into motivation in traditional Foreign Language Learning (FLL) environments, there has been little done into retention for. There are many factors that influence retention in FLL, based internet resources, environments and this thesis’ original contribution to knowledge was to study the most important aspects for that context. Thus, the objectives of this study are to explore the co-existence and interconnectedness between peers, students’ indications of autonomous behavior and the significance of relevance for continuity within an internet resources-based learning environment and how these issues relate to motivation.