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- Title
ЕТНОЦЕНТРИЗАМ И СТУДИЈЕ СТРАНИХ ЈЕЗИКА У СРБИЈИ
- Authors
Бојанић, Биљана Б. Радић
- Abstract
Because of the rise in nationalist and right-wing movements in the world today the topic of ethnocentrism has recently attracted much scholarly attention (e.g. Bennett 2009, Neuliep 2009). In the educational context this issue plays an important role because it can act as a predictor of the choice of a future profession, as well as a determinant of success in foreign language learning. In the Serbian educational context the studies of English, German or French as foreign languages consistently beg the question of whether students exhibit more integrative orientation on the one hand or more ethnocentrism on the other, since the latter is a direct opposite of integrativeness. Of special interest in the said context is the strength of one of these two factors regarding the choice of the future profession, so the paper focuses on investigating the level of ethnocentrism among first-year students of English, German and French. The purposely designed questionnaire used in the research is based on the Generalized Ethnocentrism Scale (GENE) constructed and developed by Neuliep and McCroskey (1997). Besides the 22 items assessed on a five-point Likert scale, the questionnaire also comprised questions concerning some personal and demographic data, which should contextualize the results of the GENE analysis. The research has established an overall low level of ethnocentrism among the student population under scrutiny and has ascertained that the only statistically significant connection exists between ethnocentrism and living abroad, while other independent variables do not have a statistically significant connection with the level of ethnocentrism.
- Subjects
LIKERT scale; ETHNOCENTRISM; FRENCH language; INDEPENDENT variables; PERSONALLY identifiable information; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Nasleđe, 2019, Issue 44, p139
- ISSN
1820-1768
- Publication type
Article