Young Language Learners' motivation and attitudes : longitudinal, comparative and explanatory perspectives /

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 su...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heinzmann, Sybille
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.
Temas:
Language and languages > Study and teaching (Elementary)
Language arts (Elementary)
Langage et langues > Étude et enseignement (Primaire)
Arts du langage (Primaire)
Language acquisition.
EDUCATION > Elementary.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Aims and Scope of the Book
  • 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Motivation
  • 3. Language Attitudes and Stereotypes
  • 4. Research Sites, Research Questions and Methodology
  • 5. The (In)stability of Primary School Children's Motivational Dispositions
  • 6. The (In)stability of Primary School Children's Attitudinal Dispositions
  • 7. Learners' Evaluation of English and French in Comparison
  • 8. Factors Influencing Primary School Children's Language Learning Motivation and Language Attitudes.
  • 1. Aims and Scope of the Book
  • 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Motivation
  • 2.1. Social psychological perspectives
  • 2.2. Educational psychological perspectives
  • 2.3. Integrating different perspectives: Dörnyei's Process Model of Motivation
  • 3. Language Attitudes and Stereotypes
  • 3.1. The relationship between language attitudes and language learning motivation
  • 3.2. Stereotypes and their relation to language attitudes
  • 3.3. Research into language learners' stereotypes of TL speakers
  • 3.4. Can negative attitudes and stereotypes be changed?
  • 4. Research Sites, Research Questions and Methodology
  • 4.1. Foreign language education in Switzerland
  • 4.2. Research questions, research design and samples
  • 4.3. Instruments
  • 4.4. Scaling procedure
  • 4.5. Analysis
  • 5. The (In)stability of Primary School Children's Motivational Dispositions
  • 5.1. Overall motivation
  • 5.2. Intrinsic orientation
  • 5.3. Extrinsic-instrumental orientation
  • 5.4. Extrinsic-lingua franca orientation
  • 5.5. Summary and conclusions
  • 6. The (In)stability of Primary School Children's Attitudinal Dispositions
  • 6.1. Attitudes towards TL groups
  • 6.2. Attitudes towards a globalized world
  • 6.3. Attitudes towards English
  • 6.4. Summary and conclusions
  • 7. Learners' Evaluation of English and French in Comparison
  • 7.1. Language learning motivation
  • 7.2. Language attitudes
  • 7.3. Perception of the ethnolinguistic vitality of English and French
  • 7.4. Summary and conclusions
  • 8. Factors Influencing Primary School Children's Language Learning Motivation and Language Attitudes
  • 8.1. English
  • 8.2. French
  • 8.3. The effect of different kinds of attitudes on language learning motivation
  • 8.4. Summary and conclusions.

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