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The Native Speaker Model in Japan: Constant and Changing Attitudes
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Justin Harris – Language Awareness, 2025
This paper describes a mixed methods study of Japanese first-year tertiary learners' attitudes to English language learning models. It outlines the results from a survey comprised of a verbal guise test (measuring respondents' attitudes to both linguistic and personality features) and vocabulary elicitation, which was administered to 87…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
ESL Teachers' Metalanguage as Evidence of Their Metalinguistic Knowledge of the English Intonation System
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Di Liu; Alison McGregor; Beth Zielinski; Marnie Reed; Colleen Meyers – Language Awareness, 2025
The present study investigated six experienced English as a second language (ESL) teachers' metalinguistic knowledge of the English intonation system through analysis of their metalanguage. Participants' metalanguage related to intonation was collected while completing three tasks: (1) a semi-structured interview, (2) a simulated teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Intonation