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.)

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

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