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Kormos, Judit; Kiddle, Thom; Csizer, Kata – Applied Linguistics, 2011
In the present study, we surveyed the English language-learning motivations of 518 secondary school students, university students, and young adult learners in the capital of Chile, Santiago. We applied multi-group structural-equation modeling to analyze how language-learning goals, attitudes, self-related beliefs, and parental encouragement…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Secondary School Students, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Csizer, Kata; Kormos, Judit – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The research reported in this paper explores the effect of direct and indirect cross-cultural contact on Hungarian school children's attitudes and motivated behaviour by means of structural equation modelling. Our data are based on a national representative survey of 1,777 13/14-year-old learners of English and German in Hungary; 237 of the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, English, Language Acquisition
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Kontra, Edit H.; Csizer, Kata – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2013
The aim of this study is to point out the relationship between foreign language learning motivation and sign language use among hearing impaired Hungarians. In the article we concentrate on two main issues: first, to what extent hearing impaired people are motivated to learn foreign languages in a European context; second, to what extent sign…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Sign Language, Deafness
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Csizer, Kata; Kontra, Edit H. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
The investigation of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has produced significant results in the last few years especially in regard to the description and use of this variety of English in various domains. Somewhat less is known about how far the learners and users of English as a foreign language are aware of the changing role of English, how they…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Schools, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)
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Dornyei, Zoltan; Csizer, Kata – Applied Linguistics, 2002
Examines how the significant sociocultural changes that took place in Hungary in the 1990s affected school children's language-related attitudes and language learning motivation concerning five target languages: English, German, French, Italian, and Russian. Analyses are based on survey data collected from 13- and 14-year-old pupils in 1993 and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French, German
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Kormos, Judit; Csizer, Kata – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
The research reported in this paper investigates what types of inter-cultural contact Hungarian schoolchildren have, what kind of language-related attitudes they can give account of and how they see the role of contact situations in affecting their attitudinal and motivational dispositions towards the L2, the L2 speaking communities and the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Foreign Countries, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)