Attitudes towards German language and culture

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2007-09-01

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Sağın Şimşek, Sultan Çiğdem
Üzüm, Babürhan

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This study investigates the language attitudes of students enrolled in the De-partment of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. In particular, the study aims to shed light on the status of German as a foreign language and attitudes attributed to German language and culture. The research findings gathered through a questionnaire, in general, pointed that the attitudes toward German language and culture are instrumentally positive in the sense that German language serves for the participants‟ personal development regarding inter-and cross-cultural and linguis-tic competence of the learners.

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https://tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php/zif/article/view/338
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/91182

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Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht

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Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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S. Ç. Sağın Şimşek and B. Üzüm, “Attitudes towards German language and culture,” Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, pp. 1–13, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php/zif/article/view/338.