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Sociodemographic, psychological and politicocultural correlates in Flemish students' attitudes towards French and English [PDF]
An analysis of 100 Flemish high-school students' attitudes towards French and English (both foreign languages) revealed complex links etween personality factors, gender, politicocultural identity, communicative behaviour and foreign language attitudes ...
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Language attitudes in the second language situation
A distinction is made between attitudes and specifically language attitudes. The process of acculturation is dealt with and its influence upon the motivation of ESL learners. Integrational and instmmental motivation are defined.
Riana Roos
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The Polish communities from Bukovina have been studied in the last period through several research projects, initiated by both Polish and Romanian researchers.
Florin-Teodor Olariu, Veronica Olariu
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Language and Societal Attitudes
Listening to modern Malawian popular music and listening to the speeches of boys and girls, young men and women and sometimes older men and women in Malawi today, one is soon struck by the fact that the speeches contain words, phrases and sometimes ...
Francis Moto
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Odnos in motiviranost mlajsih ucencev do ucenja tujega jezika [PDF]
This paper focuses on young foreign language learners’ attitudes and motivations. An overview is given of the main issues in this research area, based on key European studies.
Mihaljevic Djigunovic, Jelena
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This study explores the power of English in Nigeria following Kachruvian six parameters of the power of English. The paper indicates that the range and depth of English in Nigeria could be seen in the government, education, mass media, commerce, and ...
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
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Standardizing and destandardizing practices at a Flemish secondary school : a sociolinguistic ethnographic perspective on Flemish pupils’ speech practices [PDF]
For a couple of decades now, in Flanders, the functional elaboration of what is generally called tussentaal, i.e. mesolectal language use situated in between (‘tussen’) acrolectal Standard Dutch and basilectal Flemish dialects, has caused increasing ...
Van Lancker, Inge
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Perceptions and Use of English by Secondary School Students From Central Asia
After almost two centuries of functioning almost exclusively through the medium of Russian, the governments of the now-independent Kyrgyzstan are trying to implement the knowledge of English among the population as an auxiliary tool of interaction with ...
Flora Komlósi, Siarl Ferdinand
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Can majority support save an endangered language? A case study of language attitudes in Guernsey [PDF]
Many studies of minority language revitalisation focus on the attitudes and perceptions of minorities, but not on those of majority group members. This paper discusses the implications of these issues, and presents research into majority andf minority ...
Baker C. +27 more
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The Language Attitudes of Minangkabau People Towards Minangkabau and Indonesian Language
This paper examines the language attitudes of Minangkabau people toward Minangkabau language (MIN) and Indonesian (BI) in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The data were collected in the form of questionnaires, in-depth interviews and participant observation with
Temmy Thamrin
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