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Publication details [#53323]

Dyers, Charlin and Jane-Francis Abongdia. 2010. An exploration of the relationship between language attitudes and ideologies in a study of Francophone students of English in Cameroon. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31 (2) : 119–134.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | ideology | language attitude | motivation | school

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discloses much stronger ideological positions towards English language acquisition and the Anglophone community among Cameroonian Francophone high school students than what could be purposefully grasped by existing theories on language attitudes and motivation.