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Medgyes, Péter; Nikolov, Marianne – Language Teaching, 2014
In the past quarter century, Hungary has offered fertile ground for innovative developments in foreign language (FL) education. The appropriate, albeit disparaging, label applied to Hungary in the mid-1970s--"a land of foreign language illiterates" (Köllo 1978: 6)--no longer applies. In the wake of the dramatic changes of 1989, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation
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Csizer, Kata; Kormos, Judit – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The research reported in this paper explores the effect of direct and indirect cross-cultural contact on Hungarian school children's attitudes and motivated behaviour by means of structural equation modelling. Our data are based on a national representative survey of 1,777 13/14-year-old learners of English and German in Hungary; 237 of the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, English, Language Acquisition
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Szepe, Gy.; Andor, J. – Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1986
Describes the training of teachers of Hungarian as a mother tongue, who are also trained to be applied linguists, including details on institutional training programs, retraining programs, benefits of dual training, and differences between training teachers of Hungarian as a native language and as a second language. (CB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Design, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries