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标题：Culture and motivation in English for hospitality students: Why integrative motivation may be essential
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作者：Laura Victoria Fielden Burns ; Mercedes Rico García
期刊名称：Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
印刷版ISSN：1133-1127
电子版ISSN：2340-8561
出版年度：2017
卷号：23
期号：2
页码：334-358
DOI：10.20420/rlfe.2017.185
出版社：Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
摘要：Hospitality students are the future negotiators of cultural interaction in our field, and how they imagine culture through their language studies is important. In particular, cultural concepts form an essential part of their motivation to learn a foreign language, in so far as it indicates their willingness to integrate into another culture, as Gardner (1960; 2007) and Dörnyei (2001;1994) have demonstrated. In fact, this integrative motivation has been recognized as one of the key elements for a successful learning outcome in languages. Our research explores whether integrative motivation is ubiquitous in the English for hospitality classroom. In a study with 51 adult English for Hospitality students, it found that students saw culture as malleable and showed a mixed motivational orientation. Based on these findings, some relevant curriculum implications are discussed. Apart from having the necessary practical skills required in the industry, hospitality students and workers also need to be effective communicators by understanding the roots of cultural awareness and the possibility of having more than one cultural identity.
关键词：Hospitality; Motivation; English for Specific Purposes; Culture; Integrative; Adults