Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Richard Nightingale Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 248 ISBN: 9783846598894
Описание
It is widely accepted that positive attitudes to languages play a significant role in language acquisition and proficiency, this book is one of a growing number of publications which provide an extended account of this phenomena in a multilingual context (the Valencian Community in Spain where Catalan, Spanish and English all exert a powerful influence). Due to the interrelated social and cultural nature of language use, the recognised importance of an early start to language instruction, and the need to continue with effective teaching until adulthood in order to combat the later disenchantment felt by some learners, the study described in this book examines the sociocultural factors which affect the language attitudes of multilingual adolescent EFL students. In order to do this, 29 students aged between 12 and 16 years were analysed by means of a questionnaire adapted from Lasagabaster & Huguet (2007), the results indicate that such external factors as sociocultural status, a stay...
