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Title: Attitudes toward Trilingualism: A Survey Study of Chinese Mongolian University Students
Language: English
Authors: Wei, Rining (ORCID 0000-0002-4381-7040), Jiang, He (ORCID 0000-0002-6580-577X), Kong, Mengxia (ORCID 0000-0003-4654-6706)
Source: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 2021 42(3):291-306.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2021
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities, Ethnic Groups, Factor Analysis, Attitude Measures, Reliability, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Predictor Variables, Languages
Geographic Terms: China
DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2019.1689245
ISSN: 0143-4632
Abstract: Trilingualism is a powerful fact of life in many parts of the world, including most autonomous regions inhabited by minority ethnic groups in China. Although much research has been conducted on the language attitudes of stakeholders from minority ethnic groups, the attitudinal object is usually an individual language (e.g. the ethnic language, the national language, or a foreign language). Few empirical studies have investigated 'trilingualism' as an attitudinal object. Aiming to narrow this gap, the present study examined the attitudes toward trilingualism of students from four Chinese universities and the influence of selected sociobiographical variables on their attitudes. An exploratory factor analysis showed the 'trilingualism attitudes' scale, developed for use in the present study and possibly beyond, to be unidimensional, with sufficient reliability (Cronbach alpha = 0.83). On this scale, the participants (N = 310) achieved a mean score of 4.52 (out of five), reflecting very favourable attitudes toward trilingualism. Furthermore, regression analyses identified 'attitudes toward non-ethnic languages (viz. Putonghua and English)', 'attitudes toward the ethnic language (viz. Mongolian)', and gender as statistically significant predictors for attitudes toward trilingualism, respectively explaining 20%, 5.5%, and 1.3% of the trilingualism attitudes variance. Policy and research implications were also discussed.
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