Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation : : A Hungarian Perspective / / Zoltán Dörnyei, Kata Csizér, Nóra Németh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dörnyei, Zoltán,; Csizér, Kata,; Németh, Nóra,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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 --; References --; Appendices --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781853598876; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781853598876
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Zoltán Dörnyei, Kata Csizér, Nóra Németh.

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.