Language Choice and Language Learning / ID: 282681

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Published: 29.04.2009.

Language: English

Level: College/University

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Table of contents

Nr.	Chapter	Page.
1.	Abstract	4
2.	Summary	4
2.1.	Polish summary	4
2.2.	Danish summary	5
2.3.	English summary	5
3.	Introduction	6
4.	Motivation	6
5.	Problem formulation	7
5.1.	Research question	7
5.2.	Sub-questions	7
6.	Dimensions	7
7.	Delimitations	7
8.	Historical Part	8
8.1.	The Republic of Poland	8
8.2.	History of Poland	9
8.3.	Soviet Union	10
8.4.	Second World War	10
8.5.	Berlin Wall	11
8.6.	European Union	11
9.	Text & Sign	13
9.1.	The language	13
9.2.	Acquisition of second language	17
9.2.1.	Internal acquisition factors	18
9.2.2.	External acquisition factors	18
9.3.	Lingua franca	19
9.4.	Multilingualism and Bilingualism	19
9.5.	Maximal and minimal	19
9.6.	Multilingual Europe	19
10.1.	Psychology of motivation	20
10.2.	Btion in learning language	22
10.3.	Introduction to our research	30
10.4.	An interview	31
10.5.	The research. Methodology	35
10.5.1.	Participants	35
10.5.2.	Questionnaire and procedure	35
10.5.3.	Pilot research	36
10.6.	Results	37
10.6.1.	Which language (L2 and L3) do/did people learn until and after 1989?	37
10.6.2.	Every day life and usage language L2/L3	39
10.6.3.	Why did/do you learn foreign language? Motivators	40
10.6.4.	SPSS. Statistic analysis – the mathematical perspective	46
10.7.	Discussion	52
10.7.1.	Methodological problems. Findings and discussion	52
10.7.2.	Questions after research	53
10.7.3.	Do our respondents assess their own language skills accurately?	54
10.7.4.	What else, except from the motivation, does influence on language skills?	55
	A linguistic intelligence. Language abilities. The attention	55
10.7.5.	Usefulness of our project. Who and where can use our results	56
10.7.6.	References to interview. Which foreign languages are popular nowadays? Renaissance of Russian	58
10.7.7.	Bilingualism	59
10.7.8.	Lingua Franca	60
11.	General conclusion	62
12.	A special section required by the progression two year frame	63
13.	A critical reflection on the group’s working process	64
14.	References	65
	Attachments	65

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3. Introduction.
Poland as a land between crossroads of Easter and Western Europe has been influenced a lot by different historical, political and cultural aspects of both, East and West (CNN, 2008). The changes and influences during the last century have been very rapid and are still on- going, increasing. People within one/two generations must have changed and developed their point of view and position in the global society in a very short period of time. Where does their motivation to learn the languages derive from? Is that internal or external motivation or maybe convergence of both. As the first world’s ministry of Education was created in Poland back in 1773 we assume that this country must have strong roots in the importance of education, including language learning. By the processes of Europeanization ones communication skills like knowledge and acquisition of foreign languages are becoming more and more important, necessary and required, especially if to make the population more equal with the same opportunities and not cause linguistic handicaps in the current situation of internationalization, globalization etc. (Phillipe Van Parijs, 2004)

4. Motivation.
Our main motivation/aim is to achieve wider knowledge on psychology of motivation and process of language obtaining. How different factors like history, culture or life conditions influence the acquisition of a foreign languages. Moreover, how the above mentioned factors could influence the process of bilingualism, multilingualism, learning foreign languages and lingua franca. How processes like internationalization, Europeanization and globalization influence current linguistic situation and future language trends.

5. Problem formulation.
5.1 Research question
How does the fast necessity to obtain the English language during the rapid change from the Soviet Union& communism to the European Union in the post-soviet countries like Poland has influenced language learning?
5.2. Sub-questions.
• Why and how do we learn languages?
• How has the factors of motivation and learning of foreign languages in Poland changed after the II World War?
• How does this motivation matters in different social levels/ urban and rural areas?
• How has the “lingua franca” been perceived in the particular region?
• What are the future language trends?
• How to motivate people to learn more new languages and choose the “right” languages?
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