Young Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes
Young Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes

Author: Sybille Heinzmann

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1441167366

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Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes. In adopting a longitudinal perspective, the book fills a research gap and provides a macro-level analysis of motivational development over time. It reveals a surprising amount of stability in primary school children's motivational and attitudinal development. The comparative perspective looks at the learners' affective dispositions with regard to English (theorized as a 'global language') and French (theorized as a 'national language'). The comparisons between global language and national language are relevant across the world, especially in situations where instruction in languages other than English struggles to get attention. The results reveal sizeable differences between the two languages, with children being substantially more motivated to learn English than to learn French. Finally, the explanatory section identifies key antecedents of the learners' motivational and attitudinal dispositions - and thereby opens up paths for intervention relevant for those working in the field of language instruction.

Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation
Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation

Author: Zoltán Dörnyei

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2006-04-12

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1847698980

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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.

Stereotypes and Language Learning Motivation
Stereotypes and Language Learning Motivation

Author: Larisa Nikitina

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1000090108

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This book explores stereotypes that learners of six Asian languages— Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese—hold about the target language country, its cultures and people. Some of the findings, such as the language learners’ mental images of Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, are presented here for the first time. Recognizing that stereotypes, and attitudes embedded in them, have an impact on people’s actions and behavioural intentions, this book examines whether and how the country stereotypes held by the students influenced their motivation to learn the target language. Besides providing worthwhile insights into the content and structure of the country stereotypes and their relationship with language learning motivation, this book offers methodological and theoretical advancements. Drawing on intellectual heritage of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) the book highlights how the concepts of word meaning (znachenie slova) and word sense (smysl) could be fruitfully employed in studies on stereotypes that people learning a foreign language hold about a target language country. This book will appeal to all readers interested in stereotypes that people have about foreign countries and also to educators and researchers who study language learning motivation.

Young Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes
Young Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes

Author: Sybille Heinzmann

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1441157832

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Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes. In adopting a longitudinal perspective, the book fills a research gap and provides a macro-level analysis of motivational development over time. It reveals a surprising amount of stability in primary school children's motivational and attitudinal development. The comparative perspective looks at the learners' affective dispositions with regard to English (theorized as a 'global language') and French (theorized as a 'national language'). The comparisons between global language and national language are relevant across the world, especially in situations where instruction in languages other than English struggles to get attention. The results reveal sizeable differences between the two languages, with children being substantially more motivated to learn English than to learn French. Finally, the explanatory section identifies key antecedents of the learners' motivational and attitudinal dispositions - and thereby opens up paths for intervention relevant for those working in the field of language instruction.

Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning
Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning

Author: Carmen Muñoz

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2006-07-07

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1847699774

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This book examines the various ways in which age affects the process and the product of foreign language learning in a school setting. It presents studies that cover a wide range of topics, from phonetics to learning strategies. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in SLA research, language planning and language teaching.

Early Learning of Modern Foreign Languages
Early Learning of Modern Foreign Languages

Author: Marianne Nikolov

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1847691455

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Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few publications focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book represents the state-of-the-art in research on young language learners. Covering a range of languages, contexts and research methods, it provides insights into how young learners progress.

Historical Development of English Learning Motivation Research
Historical Development of English Learning Motivation Research

Author: Tae-Young Kim

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 981162514X

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This book clarifies the fundamental difference between North America-based instrumental motivation and Korea (and East Asia)-specific competitive motivation by which the EFL learners’ excessive competition to be admitted to famous universities and to be hired at a large-scale conglomerate is the main source of L2 motivation. It enables readers to understand that EFL-learning motivation reflects unique sociohistorical contexts grounded in a specific region or country. This book in turn necessitates the need to develop EFL motivation theory and research tradition which are firmly based on East Asian values and culture. ​

Early Learning and Teaching of English
Early Learning and Teaching of English

Author: Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1783093382

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This book offers an insight into the dynamics and complexities of learning and teaching English as a foreign language at primary level.It presents the findings of longitudinal research undertaken in Croatia and discusses their contribution to understanding EFL development in the young learner and impact on practices in the modern EFL classroom.

Motivation and Second Language Acquisition
Motivation and Second Language Acquisition

Author: Zoltán Dörnyei

Publisher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 082482458X

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This volume - the second in this series concerned with motivation and foreign language learning - includes papers presented at a colloquium on second language motivation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics as well as a number of specially commissioned surveys.