Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes. In adopting a longitudina

Essential study guides for the future linguist. Attitudes to Language is an introduction to the facts and fallacies behind our beliefs about 'good English'. It

Drawing on the results of a tri-national comparative survey of secondary pupils' attitudes towards Modern Foreign Language Learning (MFLL), this book illustrate

An interdisciplinary guide to traditional as well as cutting-edge methods for the study of language attitudes.

"This book argues for the need to empower African indigenous languages for greater functions in national life. It makes an important and useful contribution to

These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language

This timely volume constitutes the first book-length account of implicit as well as explicit language attitudes. It details the findings of a large-scale study,

The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections

The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and

An in-depth study of endangered language revitalisation, which assesses the implications of changing language attitudes for language campaigners and policy-make