Attitudes and Anxieties of Business and Education Students towards English: Some Data from the Basque Country

Autor/inn/en	Santos, Alaitz; Cenoz, Jasone; Gorter, Durk
Titel	Attitudes and Anxieties of Business and Education Students towards English: Some Data from the Basque Country
Quelle	In: Language, Culture and Curriculum, 31 (2018) 1, S.94-110 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Santos, Alaitz) ORCID (Cenoz, Jasone) ORCID (Gorter, Durk)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8318
DOI	10.1080/07908318.2017.1350189
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Undergraduate Students; Business Administration Education; Bilingualism; Gender Differences; Student Attitudes; Anxiety; Questionnaires; Foreign Countries; Language Attitudes; Language of Instruction; Multilingualism; Communicative Competence (Languages); Statistical Analysis; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Bilingualismus; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schülerverhalten; Angst; Fragebogen; Ausland; Sprachverhalten; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Statistische Analyse; Spanien
Abstract	The aim of this article is to focus on university students' attitudes towards English and their anxieties concerning the use of English in the Basque Country, a multilingual context where exposure to English is limited but internationalisation is an important aim. Participants were 360 undergraduate university students of business (N = 180) and education (N = 180) at the University of the Basque Country. The results of the questionnaires indicate that business students had a more positive attitude(s) towards English than education students. The findings also indicate that female business students have a relatively positive attitude in comparison to male business students but also a higher level of anxiety. The results are discussed as related to the situation of English-medium instruction in Southern European bilingual areas and previous studies on gender, attitudes and anxiety. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01