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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
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Matsumori, Akiko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1995
Introduces some of the factors that have facilitated the standardization process and the concomitant deterioration of the Ryukyuan vernacular languages in southern Japan, and points out that present patterns of language use in the area suggest the language death of Ryukyuan and the society's impending shift to monolingualism in Standard Japanese.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Attitudes
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Cargile, Aaron Castelan; Takai, Jiro; Rodriguez, Jose I. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine attitudes towards African-American vernacular English (AAVE) in a setting outside of the USA. Because foreign attitudes toward AAVE can serve as an indirect assessment of a society's racial prejudice, we decided to explore these attitudes in Japan: a country with an intriguing mix of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, African Americans, Black Dialects