Lernen Erwachsene Fremdsprachen anders? Motivation, Einstellungen, Angst als affektive Variablen im Zweitspracherwerb bei Erwachsenen und Kindern

• Authors: Małgorzata Czarnecka

Title variants

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Are there differences between child and adult foreign languagelearning? – Motivation, attitudes and anxiety as affective variables in foreign language learning in adults and children

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The objective of this paper is to answer the following question: To what extent may age have an effect on learners’ motivation, attitudes and anxiety? This paper demonstrates that – with respect to all three variables – the learning environment is crucial for language acquisition: in an informal learning context children are usually more highly motivated to acquire the language than adults. In both formal and informal learning contexts adults have generally higher anxiety levels than children; this tendency may be connected with the desire to maintain a particular linguistic and cultural identity.

Keywords

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foreign language learning; adults; children; learning context

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Germanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 137
• Pages: 181 - 192

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Czarnecka

• Wrocław