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A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages

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A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages. / Breit, Florian.
In: Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2012, p. 59-78.

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Breit, F 2012, 'A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages', Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 59-78.

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Breit, F. (2012). A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages. Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, 3(1), 59-78.

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Breit F. 2012. A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages. Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. 3(1):59-78.

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Breit, Florian. "A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages". Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. 2012, 3(1). 59-78.

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Breit F. A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages. Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. 2012;3(1):59-78.

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Breit, Florian. / A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages. In: Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. 2012 ; Vol. 3, No. 1. pp. 59-78.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - A Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages

AU - Breit, Florian

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - This paper presents the results of a survey on the attitudes of young British people (age range 18-25) towards the learning of the UK’s regional languages. A combined quantitative and qualitative questionnaire was administered to 71 respondents, who were all born and spent the majority of their youth in Britain. It was found that overall attitudes to regional languages are largely positive and that a great proportion of the target group reported they were potentially willing to learn one of the regional languages. Cultural identity and a desire to integrate with the community were identified as major contributors to willingness to learn. A major factor for unwillingness to learn was “lack of real need” (i.e. the ability to get by with English). The paper also looks at the distribution of these attitudes against gender, age and education, all of which were significantly related. Further, respondents already speaking a regional language were found to have more favourable attitudes overall.

AB - This paper presents the results of a survey on the attitudes of young British people (age range 18-25) towards the learning of the UK’s regional languages. A combined quantitative and qualitative questionnaire was administered to 71 respondents, who were all born and spent the majority of their youth in Britain. It was found that overall attitudes to regional languages are largely positive and that a great proportion of the target group reported they were potentially willing to learn one of the regional languages. Cultural identity and a desire to integrate with the community were identified as major contributors to willingness to learn. A major factor for unwillingness to learn was “lack of real need” (i.e. the ability to get by with English). The paper also looks at the distribution of these attitudes against gender, age and education, all of which were significantly related. Further, respondents already speaking a regional language were found to have more favourable attitudes overall.

M3 - Article

VL - 3

SP - 59

EP - 78

JO - Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

JF - Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

SN - 2044-7256

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