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Looking Beyond Students’ Language Learning and Attitudes Towards Three Languages In Contact

Table 1:

Pairs Indicators Mean t p
tested
Pair 1 How much do you like Romanians? 4.04 4.56 <.001
How much do you like Spaniards? 3.54
Pair 2 How much do you like Romanian? 4.37 5.47 <.001
How much do you like Spanish? 3.74
Pair 3 How important a role do you think Romania plays in the world? 2.97 -5.67 <.001
How important a role do you think Spain plays in the world? 3.53
Pair 4 How rich and developed do you think Romania is? 2.59 -12.53 <.001
How rich and developed do you think Spain is? 3.85
Pair 5 How important do you think Romanian is in the world these days? 2.25 -12.25 <.001
How important do you think Spanish is in the world these days? 3.54
Pair 6 How much would you like to travel to Romania? 4.02 -5.14 <.001
How much would you like to travel to Spain? 4.58
Pair 7 How much do you think knowing Romanian would help you if you travelled 1.93 -17.7 <.001
abroad?
How much do you think knowing Spanish would help you if you travelled 3.50
abroad?
Pair 8 How important do you think learning Romanian is in order to learn more about 3.81 -1.12 .268
the culture of its speakers?
Pair 9 How important do you think learning Spanish is in order to learn more about the 3.91
culture of its speakers?
3.79
How much do you like Romanian TV programmes?
Pair 10 How much do you like Spanish TV programmes? 2.68 8.26 <.001
How much do you like Romanian films? 3.39
Pair 11 How much do you like Spanish films? 3.48 -.605 .546
How much do you like Romanian music? 4.14
Pair 12 How much do you like Spanish music? 3.71 3.19 .002
How much do you like Romanian magazines? 3.29
How much do you like Spanish magazines? 2.62 5.03 <.001
Pair 13 I like reading/speaking/writing in Romanian. 4.36 7.17 <.001
I like reading/speaking/writing in Spanish. 3.45
Pair 14 I like being taught in Romanian. 4.13 5.18 <.001
I like being taught in Spanish. 3.38
Pair 15 Romanian is a language easy to learn. 3.69 .881 .380
Spanish is a language easy to learn. 3.58
Pair 16 I identify myself only with Romanian culture. 3.52 9.20 <.001
I identify myself only with Spanish culture. 2.09
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