Motivation, Language Attitudes And Globalisation ― A Hungarian Perspective

Student motivation, obviously, is one of the key factors determining success in learning a second language. This work, by Dornyei (U. of Nottingham, UK), Csizer (Eotvos U., Hungary), and Nemeth (Eotvos U.), concerns one of largest second language learner motivation surveys ever conducted: a survey of some 13,000 Hungarian teenagers in 1993, 1999, and 2004. While various aspects of the surveys findings from 1993 and 1999 have been discussed in previous publications, this is the first book to attempt to summarize the full range of findings for all three years. Following explanations of theory and method, chapters discuss gender, geographical location, and school instruction as modifying factors in language attitudes and motivation, the internal structure of language learning motivation, language learners' motivational profiles, and the effects of intercultural contact on language attitudes and language learning motivation. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Professor Zoltan Dornyei, who is one of the leading international experts on L2 attitude/motivation research, led the Hungarian research team. He has written over 60 academic papers on various aspects of second language acquisition, and is the author of several books, including Teaching and Researching Motivation (2001, Longman), Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing (2003, Lawrence Erlbaum) and The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition (2005, Lawrence Erlbaum).Kata Csizer and Nora Nemeth are L2 researchers and teacher trainers at the Department of English Applied Linguistics, Eotvos University, Budapest. They have published academic papers for Hungarian and international journals, including Language Teaching Research, Language Learning, The Journal of Language and Social Psychology, The Modern Language Journal and Applied Linguistics.