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    Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation: A Hungarian Perspective

    By Zoltán Dörnyei, Kata Csizér and Nóra Németh

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMultilingual Matters
    Release dateApr 12, 2006
    ISBN9781847698988
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    Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation: A Hungarian Perspective
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    Zoltán Dörnyei

    Zoltán Dörnyei (PhD [Psycholinguistics], Eötvös University, Budapest; PhD [Theology], Durham University) is professor of psycholinguistics in the School of English, University of Nottingham. His more than twenty-five books in psychology include Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom, Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition, and Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms. His publications in theology include Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning; Progressive Creation and the Struggles of Humanity in the Bible: A Canonical Narrative Interpretation; and Vision, Mental Imagery and the Christian Life: Insights from Science and Scripture.

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