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Download full textAl-Qahtani, Abdulkhaleq A. – English Language Teaching, 2016
The main purpose of this study was to explore the perceived social distance among a small Arab community residing in a college town in the Midwest of the USA. The study examines its possible impact on the process of learning/acquiring English as a second language (ESL). It draws on the findings and contentions of the acculturation model as…
Descriptors: Social Distance, Arabs, North Americans, Interviews
Rafieyan, Vahid; Orang, Maryam; Bijami, Maryam; Nejad, Maryam Sharafi; Eng, Lin Siew – English Language Teaching, 2014
Learning a language involves knowledge of both linguistic competence and cultural competence. Optimal development of linguistic competence and cultural competence, however, requires a high level of acculturation attitude toward the target language culture. To this end, the present study explored the acculturation attitudes of 70 Iranian…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Acculturation, English (Second Language)
