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CHAPTER 7 FINDINGS
display a more homogeneous pattern, while in the G1 group; considerably
more varied responses can be detected. Ihe majority of both G1 (4696) and
G2 (37%) speakers feel ‘natural’ when speaking Hungarian followed by feeling
‘good’ (G1: 38%; G2: 25%). However, in the G2 data, feeling ‘good’ ranks equally
with feeling ‘proud’. For G1 speakers, the feeling of ‘proud’ is less significant.
Although no G1 speaker feels ‘frustrated’ when speaking Hungarian, some
G2 speakers do, probably as a result of their being aware of their reduced
Hungarian competence. Feeling ‘uncomfortable’ has not emerged as a feeling
attached to speaking Hungarian in either group.
In the following subsection, the emotional attitudes of G1 and G2 speakers
to speaking English will be discussed.
Table 37: Emotional attitudes to speaking English from negative to positive in the Gl
vs. G2 groups
(B) (C) (E) (D) (A)
Responses Frustrated | Uncomfortable Natural Good Proud
Gl ‘yes’
responses 1 (3%) 0 20 (63%) 9 (28%) 2 (6%)
(N=32)
G2 ‘yes’
responses 0 0 8 (80%) 2 (20%) 0
(N=10)
Similar to the emotions attached to speaking Hungarian (Table 36), the ranked
order of emotions attached to speaking English is the same in G1 and G2 groups.
Once again, it is noteworthy to observe that the overwhelming majority of Gl
(63%) and G2 (80%) speakers feel ‘natural’ when speaking English. The feeling
of ‘natural’ is followed by the feeling of ‘good’ (G1: 28%; G2: 20%). The feeling of
‘proud’ ranks the third (6%) in the G1 sample (no G2 subject claims to feel proud
when speaking English), but it is less conspicuous than in terms of speaking
Hungarian. G2 speakers do not feel ‘proud’, ‘frustrated’, or ‘uncomfortable’ when
speaking English. The data show that for both G1 and G2 speakers speaking
English is ‘natural’, and overwhelmingly a good feeling is associated to it. Pride
is less apparent in the Gl sample when it comes to speaking English than when
speaking Hungarian. Although feeling ‘proud’ and ‘good’ have turned out to be
almost equally characteristic of G2’s emotional attitudes attached to speaking
Hungarian, the feeling of ‘proud’ does not emerge when speaking English. It
is also noticeable that the emotional attitude of G2 speakers to English shows
a significantly less varied, more heterogeneous picture than Gl’s attitude to
Hungarian. This might bear evidence of the fact that G1 subjects have a more
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