Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation - A Hungarian Perspective (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Multilingual Matters
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Second Language Acquisition
Release date:	April 2006
Authors:	Zoltan Doernyei • Kata Csizer • Nora Nemeth
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	205
ISBN-13:	978-1-85359-885-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Lexicography Promotions
LSN:	1-85359-885-2
Barcode:	9781853598852

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