Sport Student Foreign Language Learning And Use Habits

Ieva Rudzinska, Monta Jakovleva

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Abstract

The aim of the research is to analyze sport student foreign language (English) learning and use habits in longitudinal scale (past, present and future prospective). Subjects are 35 Latvian Academy of Sport Education Full and Part time students. Methods: mixed – qualitative and quantitative. Interviews with three students led to designing a questionnaire, consisting of 12 statements. Results were analyzed with SPSS 17.0. Results show that students learn and use English both in sportive and non-sportive environment, active sporting life promotes foreign language learning. Most of them self-assess their English use skills as moderate. At present they use English more than in past, in future more than in present, and in future much more than in past (r=0.5, p<0.001).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība = Society. Integration. Education
Subtitle of host publicationstarptautiskās zinātniskās konferences materiāli = proceedings of the international scientific conference
Place of PublicationRēzekne
PublisherRēzeknes Tehnoloģiju akadēmija
Pages233-240
Number of pages8
Volume1
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventInternational Scientific Conference “Society. Integration. Education: Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība”, 2014 - Rēzekne, Latvia
Duration: 23 May 201424 May 2014
https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/development-of-learning-needs-grounded-pedagogical-intervention-p
https://dom.lndb.lv/data/obj/file/25236527.pdf

Publication series

NameSociety. Integration. Education=Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība
ISSN (Print)1691-5887
ISSN (Electronic)2256-0629

Conference

ConferenceInternational Scientific Conference “Society. Integration. Education: Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība”, 2014
Country/TerritoryLatvia
CityRēzekne
Period23/05/1424/05/14
Internet address

Keywords*

  • Sport students
  • foreign language learning
  • sport English

Field of Science*

  • 3.3 Health sciences
  • 5.3 Educational sciences

Publication Type*

  • 3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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