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The role of intercultural contact in learning German in Hungary: a structural equation modelling approach

Csizer, Kata ; Kormos, Judit (2023)
The role of intercultural contact in learning German in Hungary: a structural equation modelling approach.
In: Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht : ZIF, 2008, 13 (2)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00012251
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Title: The role of intercultural contact in learning German in Hungary: a structural equation modelling approach
Language: English
Date: 24 May 2023
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2008
Journal or Publication Title: Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht : ZIF
Volume of the journal: 13
Issue Number: 2
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00012251
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Origin: Secondary publication from TUjournals
Abstract:

This study investigates how contact with the German language and its speakers affects language-related attitudes and motivated behaviour in a foreign language context, namely Hungary, by means of structural equation modelling. Questionnaire data were collected from 189 students of German, who were all between 13 and 14 years old and attended the final, eighth, grade of the primary school system. Our results revealed that students’ motivated learning behaviour was not only shaped by their attitudes towards the target language and its speakers, but also by the students’ experiences about speaking German with visitors to Hungary as well as the perceived importance of these contact situations. Students’ experience of direct contact with speakers of German was affected by their linguistic self-confidence whereas all the other contact- and attitude-related dimensions were socially constructed through the influence of the students’ immediate learning environment

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-122510
Classification DDC: 400 Language > 400 Language, linguistics
Divisions: 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sprachwissenschaft - Mehrsprachigkeit
Date Deposited: 24 May 2023 17:03
Last Modified: 22 Jul 2024 08:11
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/12251
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