Age and Gender Effects on Motivation and Attitudes in German Learning: The Polish Context

• Authors: Jan E. Okuniewski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The research investigates the German language learning motivations of Polish secondary school students and university students. Questionnaire data were collected from 247 students (126 from secondary school and 121 from university). The aim of this research was to examine the relationships among language attitudes, instrumental, cultural interest, integrative, L2 self and motivated learning. The results show the existence of age and gender difference in variables under consideration. Relationships were found between age and gender to the motivational attitudes: older and female students had a more integrative attitude than younger and mail students and experienced more intensive motivation.

Keywords

EN

language learning; age; gender; second language motivation; language attitudes; German language

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Psychology of Language and Communication
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 251-262

Dates

published

2014-11-01

online

2014-12-30

Contributors

author

Jan E. Okuniewski

• University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/plc-2014-0017