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Attitudes and Motivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

R. C. Gardner
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The notion that attitudes and motivation would be implicated in second language acquisition is not a new one. As early as 1941, Jordan investigated the relation between attitudes toward a number of school subjects and grades in those subjects, and found the relationships for French to be among the highest. A number of later studies by other researches also showed relationships between attitudes towards learning languages and proficiency in the language (see Gardner 1985 for a review). The first reference to a possible relationship between attitudes toward the other language community and achievement in that language, however, appears to have been made by Arsenian (1945). One of the many relevant questions he raised, for example, was, “In what way do affective factors, such as social prestige, assumed superiority, or—contrariwise—assumed inferiority, or enforcement of a language by a hated nation affect language learning in a child?” (Arsenian 1945:85).

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Social/psychological factors in sla
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 9 , March 1988 , pp. 135 - 148
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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