Resumen de Crossing the communication divide: Intergroup contact and the desire to learn the outgroup’s language

Nick Joyce, Laszlo Vincze, Eniko Julia Marton

• This paper explores the role of ethnolinguistic vitality and intergroup contact in changing attitudes and the interest to learn Hungarian among Slovak-speaking secondary school students in Southern Slovakia (N = 225). Several indirect paths linking the all these variables were found. In general, lower local ethnolinguistic vitality of Hungarian decreased intergroup anxiety and increased the quality of contact with members of the Hungarian minority, which led to a more positive attitude toward the Hungarian minority, and enhanced the interest to learn Hungarian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]