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ERIC Number: EJ750531
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Mar
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0008-4506
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Motivation, Ethnic Identity, and Post-Secondary Education Language Choices of Graduates of Intensive French Language Programs
Goldberg, Erin; Noels, Kimberly A.
Canadian Modern Language Review, v62 n3 423-448 Mar 2006
This study investigates the motivation for learning French, the ethnic identities, and the decision to pursue post-secondary education in French of anglophone graduates of intensive French language programs in high school. Sixty-two graduates of either French immersion, Advanced Placement French, or the International Baccalaureate French program enrolled at an English-language post-secondary institution and 29 graduates of the same programs enrolled at a French-language facility completed a questionnaire including the Situated Ethnic Identity Scale (Noels, Saumure, Pino, Clement, & MacIntyre, 2006), the Language Learning Orientation Scale (Noels, Pelletier, Clement, & Vallerand, 2000), and a language use index. Results provided some evidence that students in the francophone institution were motivated to learn French for more self-determined reasons and that they also felt more strongly francophone and less strongly anglophone in some situations.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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