Youth and the Study of roreign Language: An Investigation of Attitudes  

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Cortes, Kristin Hull

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 35 no. 3 (2002), page 320-332.
Fulltext: 35_03_Cortes.pdf (1.03MB)

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This study was undertaken to assess the attitudes of elementary and middle school students toward foreign language (FL) study. A questionnaire, designed to measure student attitudes toward FL study and perceived parental support, was administered to 209 youth in grades three through eight, in two d8erent school populations within the San Francisco Bay Area. The results of t-tests show that students with home languages other than English demonstrated more positive attitudes toward FL and a higher degree of perceived parental support for their FL program than did students whose home language was English. There were no gender differencesfound on the total attitude score. Howevel; a d8erence between the two school populations emerged, with students at School 1 scoring significantly higher on the attitude scale and reporting more parent support than students at School 2. The implications ofthe study are discussed and suggestionsfor future research are provided.

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