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Svanes, Bjorg. 1988. Attitudes and 'cultural distance' in second language acquisition. Applied Linguistics 9 (4) : 357–371.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | L2-acquisition | language and culture | language proficiency

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

The findings of this study, involving 170 foreign students at the University of Bergen, Norway, show that there is a relationship between a balanced and critical attitude towards the target people and target language proficiency in the case of adult second language learners.