Motivation and attitudes of Polish students learning Hebrew

• Authors: Elżbieta Okuniewska , Hanna Okuniewska , Jan Okuniewski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Limited studies have been carried out in Poland to investigate the motivation which is activated and maintained among Polish students learning Hebrew as their optional second language. The aim of this research was to examine the relationships among integrative and instrumental attitudes and motivation level (Gardner, 1985a) in two age groups of students learning Hebrew, using an 18-item questionnaire adapted from the AMTB (Gardner, 1985b). Contrary to expectations, gender and family ties did not significantly bias the motivation and attitudes in the sample investigated. Close relationships were found between age and integrative attitude and motivation intensity: older students had a more integrative attitude than younger students and experienced more intensive motivation.

Keywords

EN

language learning; second language motivation; language attitudes; Hebrew language

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Psychology of Language and Communication
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 71-79

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2010-12-22

Contributors

author

Elżbieta Okuniewska

• University of Warsaw

author

Hanna Okuniewska

• University of Warsaw

author

Jan Okuniewski

• University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10057-010-0011-8