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English as a Lingua Franca in Japan: Multilingual Postgraduate Students' Attitudes towards English Accents

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Sugene Kim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024

This study examines L2 speakers' accent attitudes in relation to their linguistic profile and current practices, recruiting 107 multilingual postgraduate students of 34 different nationalities enrolled in leading research universities in Japan. The participants completed a survey regarding their perceptions of different English varieties in…

Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Language Role

Pronunciation-Specific Adjustment Strategies for Intelligibility in L2 Teacher Talk: Results and Implications of a Questionnaire Study

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Saito, Kazuya; van Poeteren, Kim – Language Awareness, 2012

A questionnaire study was conducted to examine how 120 highly experienced EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers in Japan adjust their pronunciation in order to facilitate and refine their students' learning skills to approach mutual intelligibility in second language (L2) classrooms (i.e. "pronunciation-specific teacher talk").…

Descriptors: Questionnaires, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation