Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation : A Hungarian Perspective EPUB

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.