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Berardi-Wiltshire, Arianna; Bortolotto, María Celina; Morris, Hone – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This article explores the motivation of non-Maori learners of te reo Maori as an L2. Inspired by calls for contextualised investigations of the L2 motivation of learners of LOTEs, our study utilises an "ethical self-formation framework" [Hennig, B. B. 2010a. "Language Learning and the Self: Exploring Hong Kong Students' Motivation…
Descriptors: Ethics, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
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Fiona Smythe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Inclusive schooling practices that support immigrant students with low language-of-schooling proficiency to actively participate in learning within mainstream contexts is crucial during the newly-arrived phase. The concept of reciprocal integration and its more recent evolution through the inclusive education movement, reframes school-community…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Barriers, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Yao Lu; Ksenia Gnevsheva – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Previous research that explores the effect of ethnicity in the perception of speaker accentedness and personality traits often finds that Asian appearance contributes to a more accented and less competent impression. Importantly, most of the work done to date employed only Caucasian first language-speaking listeners; moreover, ethnicity and gender…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Korean
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Gnevsheva, Ksenia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This study investigates variation in listeners' accuracy in accent identification of native and non-native speakers of English. Thirty native speakers of New Zealand (NZ) English completed a free identification task with stimuli extracted from naturalistic conversations of several speakers from three native and two non-native English language…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Korean
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East, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
This paper reports on the effectiveness of a tailored undergraduate course at a tertiary institution in New Zealand constructed to challenge, and encourage changes to, monolingual "English-only" attitudes. The course was designed to provide knowledge and promote understanding of the phenomenon of English as a global language, and the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Measures (Individuals), Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
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Barkhuizen, Gary; Knoch, Ute; Starks, Donna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Although the majority of New Zealanders speak English, and only English, the 1987 Maori Language Act and immigration from both Asia and the Pacific have had a significant impact on New Zealand society. Because increasing numbers of children are entering school with limited English language ability, students are arguably the group with the most…
Descriptors: Asians, Ethnicity, Language Planning, Language Attitudes
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Starks, Donna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper considers speakers' differing degrees of self-confidence in their bilingual abilities and their effects on reported language use and observed patterns of language choice. One hundred and twenty individuals from New Zealand's four largest Pasifika communities--Samoan, Cook Islands, Tongan and Niuean--reported on their self-confidence in…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Malayo Polynesian Languages