%0 Journal Article
%T Perfil del estudiante y motivaci¨®n en el aprendizaje del italiano como lengua extranjera
%A Pascale
%A Giovanna
%A Marchi
%A Giancarla
%J N¨²cleo
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this paper reports on student profile characteristics and motivational data that underlies the study of the italian language in venezuela. two different groups of learners constituted the sample: 228 students from an italo-venezuelan high school and 322 students from a private language institute. the questionnaire used is based on bettoni and marchi£¿s (2004) instrument and on an adaptation for italian of some items from gardner£¿s attitude motivation test battery (ambt) (1985). through this questionnaire the following variables were explored: sex, age, education level, family origin, use of italian, activities carried out for its practice; it also included items which addressed the wish to learn the language and the level and intensity of the learners£¿ underlying motivation. results were analyzed based on percentages for both groups. they show a clear tendency towards the use of italian for socializing activities, essentially based on the family£¿s origins and/or the need to know another culture for educational or working reasons. the motivation underlying these tendencies seems to be both of an affective and instrumental nature.
%K italian as a foreign language
%K language learning
%K affective and instrumental motivation.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-97842011000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en