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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
The Native/Non-Native Teacher Debate: Insights into Variables at Play
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Colmenero, Kebir; Lasagabaster, David – Language Awareness, 2023
Research on language acquisition has long examined the native/non-native English-speaking teacher (NEST/NNEST) debate, particularly in relation to how teachers are perceived. Despite this body of research, the point of view of the parents has been disregarded, as well as the analysis of crucial variables such as students attending extracurricular…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Assumptions of Speaker Ethnicity and the Effect on Ratings of Accentedness, Comprehensibility, and Intelligibility
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Lee, Bradford J.; Bailey, Justin L. – Language Awareness, 2023
While listeners tend to downgrade speakers' accent and comprehensibility when they perceive them to be from a different language community--a process known as reverse linguistic stereotyping (RLS)--research has generally relied solely on quantitative data such as Likert scale ratings. The current study sought to extend the analysis further by…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Stereotypes, Ethnicity, Intelligibility
Ideologies in the Foreign Language Curriculum: Insights from Textbooks and Instructor Interviews
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Padilla, Lillie Vivian; Vana, Rosti – Language Awareness, 2019
This study presents a critical discourse analysis of underlying language ideologies derived from L2 Spanish textbooks. Although previous research has tended to focus on ideologies contained in Spanish heritage language textbooks, in the present analysis, we expand this narrow scope by focusing on L2 Spanish textbooks, specifically…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Textbooks
Broadening Learners' Perspectives on World Englishes: A Classroom-Based Study
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Kang, Hyun-Sook; Ahn, So-Yeon – Language Awareness, 2019
This study explored Korean university students' beliefs and perspectives on different English varieties, and their transformation in learner perceptions with respect to English learning, diversity in the English language, and learning of different English varieties over the course of a semester. On two occasions, Korean university students (N =…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction