Glottodidaktik

Tom 137 (2013)

Lernen Erwachsene Fremdsprachen anders? Motivation, Einstellungen, Angst als affektive Variablen im Zweitspracherwerb bei Erwachsenen und Kindern

Strony: 181 - 192

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Abstrakt

Are there differences between child and adult foreign languagelearning? – Motivation, attitudes and anxiety as affective variables in foreign language learning in adults and children

The objective of this paper is to answer the following question: To what extent may age have an effect on learners’ motivation, attitudes and anxiety? This paper demonstrates that – with respect to all three variables – the learning environment is crucial for language acquisition: in an informal learning context children are usually more highly motivated to acquire the language than adults. In both formal and informal learning contexts adults have generally higher anxiety levels than children; this tendency may be connected with the desire to maintain a particular linguistic and cultural identity.

Zasady cytowania

Czarnecka, M. (2013). Lernen Erwachsene Fremdsprachen anders? Motivation, Einstellungen, Angst als affektive Variablen im Zweitspracherwerb bei Erwachsenen und Kindern. Germanica Wratislaviensia, 137, 181–192. Pobrano z https://wuwr.pl/gwr/article/view/2134