A longitudinal study of language learners’ images about Russia
Several studies in the field of applied linguistics have explored images held by language learners about a target language country. However, for the most part, these studies focused on learners of modern European languages, such as German, Spanish and French and they were conducted in Western educa...
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| description | Several studies in the field of applied linguistics have explored images held by language learners about a target language country. However, for the most part, these
studies focused on learners of modern European languages, such as German, Spanish and French and they were conducted in Western educational contexts. Besides, none of the previous investigations attempted to conduct a systematic classification of the language learners’ images. The present longitudinal study addressed these gaps in the research literature. It explored images about Russia held by Malaysian learners of the Russian
language in a large university in East Malaysia. This article reports the findings of three questionnaire surveys conducted in 2004, 2007 and 2010. It was found that the images about Russia held by the participants were diverse and clustered around eight country related aspects. Content of some categories of images was stable and changed little over time. Other categories were more fluid and more prone to change. The paper concludes
with a discussion of pedagogical implications that can be derived from the findings. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-160232016-07-21T01:27:14Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/16023/ A longitudinal study of language learners’ images about Russia Nikitina, L. L Education (General) PB Modern European Languages PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature Several studies in the field of applied linguistics have explored images held by language learners about a target language country. However, for the most part, these studies focused on learners of modern European languages, such as German, Spanish and French and they were conducted in Western educational contexts. Besides, none of the previous investigations attempted to conduct a systematic classification of the language learners’ images. The present longitudinal study addressed these gaps in the research literature. It explored images about Russia held by Malaysian learners of the Russian language in a large university in East Malaysia. This article reports the findings of three questionnaire surveys conducted in 2004, 2007 and 2010. It was found that the images about Russia held by the participants were diverse and clustered around eight country related aspects. Content of some categories of images was stable and changed little over time. Other categories were more fluid and more prone to change. The paper concludes with a discussion of pedagogical implications that can be derived from the findings. 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.um.edu.my/16023/1/2016_jolace-my_paper.pdf Nikitina, L. (2016) A longitudinal study of language learners’ images about Russia. Journal of Language and Cultural Education, 4 (2). pp. 103-117. ISSN 1339-4584, http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jolace |
| spellingShingle | L Education (General) PB Modern European Languages PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature Nikitina, L. A longitudinal study of language learners’ images about Russia |
| title | A longitudinal study of language learners’ images about Russia |
| title_full | A longitudinal study of language learners’ images about Russia |
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| title_short | A longitudinal study of language learners’ images about Russia |
| title_sort | longitudinal study of language learners images about russia |
| topic | L Education (General) PB Modern European Languages PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature |
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