Language attitude test among fifth-grade and twefth-grade students
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https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2020.3.2Keywords:
implicit attitude, explicit attitude, language attitude, dialect, regional variety of languageAbstract
This research project has investigated the explicit (openly communicated attitude and implicit (hidden) attitude of students towards dialects. These students of grade five and grade twelve went to school in Gödöllő, a city near Budapest. According to our preliminary hypotheses, explicit attitude and implicit attitude are unanimously judgmental in the case of younger children, whereas negative opinion is shown only in the implicit attitude of older students as the presumed social and cultural expectations are stronger in their case. Results show that although younger children are indeed more judgmental in their explicit attitude, it cannot be stated that a negative opinion is dominant in their implicit attitude. Contrary to the assumptions, students in grade twelve were less judgmental in their explicit attitude than children in grade five and they were slightly more dismissive in their implicit attitude compared to the younger respondents. These results show how extremely important sensitization is, i.e., the shaping of students’ sophisticated thinking on language varieties.
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