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dc.creatorNIKITINA,LARISA
dc.creatorBINTI MOHD DON,ZURAIDAH
dc.creatorCHEONG,LOH SAU
dc.date2014-12-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-25T13:22:44Z
dc.date.available2019-04-25T13:22:44Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-48832014000200006
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/75356
dc.descriptionLanguage learners bring into the classroom a multitude of stereotypes about the target language country, culture and native speakers. Recognizing an important role that these images play in the process of learning a foreign language, several research studies have explored stereotypes held by language learners. For the most part, these studies were qualitative in nature and they mainly focused on the stereotype content. There is also a lack of studies that examine frequency and salience of the stereotypical images about Germany held by the learners of German. The current mixed methods study addresses these gaps. It extends research on stereotypes in the field of applied linguistics by qualitatively exploring the content and quantitatively assessing favourability and salience of the language learners' stereotypical images. This study was conducted among beginner learners of German in a big public university in Malaysia. The findings revealed that the students' stereotypes about Germany included references to sport, science, technology, industry, culture, history, people, language, geography and food. The most salient stereotypes were "football", "cars", "technology", "engineering", "Volkswagen" and "big industries." For the most part, the stereotypes about Germany held by the students were positive.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte
dc.relation10.4067/S0718-48832014000200006
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceRLA. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada v.52 n.2 2014
dc.subjectCountry stereotypes
dc.subjectforeign language learners
dc.subjectstereotype favourability
dc.subjectstereotype salience
dc.subjectmixed methods
dc.titleINVESTIGATING STEREOTYPES ABOUT THE TARGET LANGUAGE COUNTRY: A CASE OF GERMAN LANGUAGE LEARNERS


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