Stereotypes and Language Learning Motivation: A Study of L2 Learners of Asian Languages - Tapa dura

Nikitina, Larisa

 
9780367358068: Stereotypes and Language Learning Motivation: A Study of L2 Learners of Asian Languages
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ISBN 10: 0367358069 ISBN 13: 9780367358068
Editorial: Routledge, 2020

Sinopsis

This book explores stereotypes that learners of six Asian languages― Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese―hold about the target language country, its cultures and people.

Some of the findings, such as the language learners’ mental images of Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, are presented here for the first time. Recognizing that stereotypes, and attitudes embedded in them, have an impact on people’s actions and behavioural intentions, this book examines whether and how the country stereotypes held by the students influenced their motivation to learn the target language. Besides providing worthwhile insights into the content and structure of the country stereotypes and their relationship with language learning motivation, this book offers methodological and theoretical advancements. Drawing on intellectual heritage of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) the book highlights how the concepts of word meaning (znachenie slova) and word sense (smysl) could be fruitfully employed in studies on stereotypes that people learning a foreign language hold about a target language country.

This book will appeal to all readers interested in stereotypes that people have about foreign countries and also to educators and researchers who study language learning motivation.

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Acerca del autor

Larisa Nikitina, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Her research interests include psychological aspects involved in learning an additional language, approaches to the teaching of culture in the language classroom and quantitative methodologies in applied linguistics. She has published extensively on these topics.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0367358069
ISBN 13 
9780367358068
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
136
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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München
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