Motivation, language attitudes and globalisation : a Hungarian perspective
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Motivation, language attitudes and globalisation : a Hungarian perspective
(Second language acquisition / series editor, David Singleton, 18)
Multilingual Matters, c2006
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Osaka University International Studies Library
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-156) and index
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Description
This volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation survey in second language studies. The research team gathered data from over 13,000 Hungarian language learners on three successive occasions: in 1993, 1999 and 2004. The examined period covers a particularly prominent time in Hungary's history, the transition from a closed, Communist society to a western-style democracy that became a member of the European Union in 2004. Thus, the book provides an 'attitudinal/motivational flow-chart' describing how significant sociopolitical changes affect the language disposition of a nation. The investigation focused on the appraisal of five target languages - English, German, French, Italian and Russian - and this multi-language design made it also possible to observe the changing status of the different languages in relation to each other over the examined 12-year period. Thus, the authors were in an ideal position to investigate the ongoing impact of language globalisation in a context where for various political/historical reasons certain transformation processes took place with unusual intensity and speed. The result is a unique blueprint of how and why language globalisation takes place in an actual language learning environment.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND THEORY
2. METHOD
3 LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND MOTIVATION IN HUNGARY: FROM 1993 TO 2004
4 MODIFYING FACTORS IN LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND MOTIVATION: GENDER, GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION AND SCHOOL INSTRUCTION
5 THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION
6 LANGUAGE LEARNERS' MOTIVATIONAL PROFILES
7 THE EFFECTS OF INTERCULTURAL CONTACT ON LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY/ APPENDICES
by "Nielsen BookData"