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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 * 136 +
