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• Title:
  Language biography – Considerations on the motivation of German language learning
• Creator:
  Mackiewicz, Maciej
• Description:
  A language biography is most often a reflection on one’s own linguistic development and therefore can be termed “language auto-biography”. In its a broad sense, a language biography may include mother tongue acquisition, yet this article focuses solely on foreign language learning, with a special emphasis on the German language. The article provides insights into factors that motivate learners of German and into changes in these factors over a period of time, including the role of intercultural motivators. A theoretical and methodological introduction is followed by the results of a qualitative study conducted in five Polish institutions of tertiary education on a group of 73 students learning German. The excerpts of biographies quoted provide a picture of motivation as a dynamic process and moreover indicate that as present-day students get older, they are increasingly more thoughtful about their learning.;
  A language biography is most often a reflection on one’s own linguistic development and therefore can be termed “language autobiography”. In its a broad sense, a language biography may include mother tongue acquisition, yet this article focuses solely on foreign language learning, with a special emphasis on the German language. The article provides insights into factors that motivate learners of German and into changes in these factors over a period of time, including the role of intercultural motivators. A theoretical and methodological introduction is followed by the results of a qualitative study conducted in five Polish institutions of tertiary education on a group of 73 students learning German. The excerpts of biographies quoted provide a picture of motivation as a dynamic process and moreover indicate that as present-day students get older, they are increasingly more thoughtful about their learning.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Maciej Mackiewicz;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.09.04
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish;
  pol
• Source:
  Neofilolog; Nr. 42/2 (2014): Reflexion im Fremdsprachenlernprozess; 181-200;
  Neofilolog; No. 42/2 (2014): Reflection in language learning; 181-200;
  Neofilolog; No. 42/2 (2014): Refleksja w uczeniu się języków obcych; 181-200;
  Neofilolog; No 42/2 (2014): Réflexion dans l'apprentissage des langues étrangères; 181-200;
  Neofilolog; Nr 42/2 (2014): Refleksja w uczeniu się języków obcych; 181-200;
  2545-3971;
  1429-2173
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/n/article/view/19616/19357
• Subject:
  German as foreign language;
  history of German teaching;
  German teaching in Poland;
  Polish-German cultural relations;
  niemiecki jako język obcy;
  historia nauczania języka niemieckiego;
  nauczanie języka niemieckiego w Polsce;
  polsko-niemieckie relacje kulturowe
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/n/article/view/19616
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text