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The Official National Language and Language Attitudes of Three Ethnic Minority Groups in China.
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Zhou, Minglang – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1999
Uses an attitude/motivation battery and matched-guise procedure to examine Kazak, Uygur, and Yi subject's ratings of Putonghua (PTH) and Chinese ethnic minority nationality (EMN) languages and 12 variables in PTH learning. Shows among other things that integrative orientation of Beijing people are the best predictors of EMN's instrumental…
Descriptors: College Students, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Views of Constructed Languages, with Special Reference to Esperanto: An Experimental Study.
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Edwards, John; MacPherson, Lynn – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1987
A study of college faculty and student attitudes toward artificial languages, particularly Esperanto, found faculty more knowledgeable but less enthusiastic than students about the languages. Faculty were less likely to see practical benefits in the knowledge and use of constructed languages, and less interested in seeing them taught or learning…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Educational Background