Abstract
Acquiring two languages such as English and Cebuano during migration is an interesting challenge for nine young Filipino-German migrants living in Dumaguete City, Philippines which is dubbed as one of the best places to retire in the world. Attitudes and motivation play a significant part in learning the second language with the consequence of forgetting the mother tongue due to its non-use. The respondents are divided into short -term migrants who migrated less than five years and long-term migrants who moved to Dumaguete for more than five years and beyond. In the motivation and attitude study, only the short-term migrants answered neutral for attitude towards German people and attitude towards Filipino people. The rest of the categories yielded moderately agree answers. Finally, majority of the short-term migrants believed that speakers of other languages perceived them as German speakers while people in the community thought that long-term migrants speak Cebuano, English fluently but actually attrited in their native language.
Highlights
Attitude and motivation are principal drivers in acquiring a second language and these two factors in later time help the L1 speakers sustain the slow and meticulous progression of language acquisition
Long term migrants on the other hand, preferred Cebuano and the preferred language was English because they stayed in Negros for a long time and had fully acquired those languages
Most of the languages spoken by friends of short-term migrants were English and Cebuano while long term migrants had pals who spoke in English, Cebuano as well as Germans
Summary
Attitude and motivation are principal drivers in acquiring a second language and these two factors in later time help the L1 speakers sustain the slow and meticulous progression of language acquisition. The respondents gave a positive outcome to how they associate with Germans in the Philippines and Germans in general as well their attitudes towards Filipinos and learning a foreign language. The over-all results of the respondents’ attitudes towards German people living in the Philippines were neutral for short-term migrants and moderately agree for long-term respondents.
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