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Motivation And Attitude of International Students Towards Learning Hungarian Khelifa, Alaeddine; Batyi, Szilvia
Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE| Vol. 7 No. 1 (2023): IRJE |Indonesian Research Journal in Education|
Publisher : Universitas Jambi, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22437/irje.v7i1.24828

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In second/foreign language learning, motivation, anxiety, and attitude play a role (Pham, 2021). Dörnyei (2001) pointed out that the classroom is such a complex place that a single motivational principle cannot explain what happens within because motivation is a complex, composite entity with distinct and state-like context-specific components. Additionally, anxiety and attitude are complex constructs, and despite the differences in research methods used and the conceptualization of various motivational configurations, the general view among these studies is to treat motivation, anxiety, and attitude as dependent constructs characterized by multiple guiding variables (Dörnyei, 2010; Galánta, 2009; MacIntyre et al., 2015). Current approaches have also called for integration between these constructs and language learning situations in the FL classroom. These multi-variable approaches help this research explores motivation, anxiety, and attitude in 280 international students in Hungary taking courses in L2 Hungarian with a 34-item questionnaire. As expected, motivation, anxiety, and attitude are strongly related, and the self-guides emerge as strong predictors of motivated behavior and attitudes and have a negative correlation with language anxiety (Csizér & Dörnyei, 2005). Anxiety integrates with self-confidence, and language proficiency has the highest correlation with attitude. Finally, the attitude toward the course correlates highly with the attitude toward the community. Learners who report high ideal selves are thus most likely linguistically self-confident and exhibit a motivated behavior that encourages them to be exposed to Hungarian outside their classrooms and to have a positive attitude toward the community, the Hungarian language, and their teachers.
Book review David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and LudovicaSerratrice (Eds.), Bilingual cognition and language: The state of the science across its subfield, John Bejamins: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Khelifa, Alaeddine
Journal Of Language Education and Development (JLed) Vol. 3 No. 2 (2021): Vol 3 No 2 July (2021): Journal of Language Education and Development (JLed)
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Muara Bungo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52060/jled.v3i2.647

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The present paper reviews the Bilingual cognition and language: the state of science across its subfield edited by Miller, Bayram, Rothman and Ludovicaserratrice (2018). The editor's goal is to provide a general overview of bilingualism and its implications for understanding the brain, language development and processing, and the social and educational aspects of different types of bilingualism. There are 17 chapters of this collection divided into main parts; (1) theoretical accounts, (2) child bilingualism, (3) adult bilingualism, and (4) bilingual cognition, neuroscience, and impairment. Each chapters grouping is dedicated to delineating key concepts in the field of bilingualism.