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Okim Kang; Katherine Yaw – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
If extraneous information leads listeners to biased judgements, then their speech perceptions are likely to manifest distortion in that direction. This phenomenon is known as reverse linguistic stereotyping (RLS), which has been confirmed by 25 years of empirical study. Recent research on effects of listener background on ratings of speaker…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Stereotypes, Social Bias, Pronunciation
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Zhibin Shan; Hao Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite much research on how multilingual learners view the linguistic properties of language, how they perceive languages as cultural capital has been far less investigated. Drawing on the theories of social cognition, this study explores how multiple foreign language learners' impressions, as a lens to observe their multilingual awareness, are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Reem Khamis-Dakwar; Baha Makhoul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The study examined the relationship between children's explicit knowledge and awareness of diglossia (EKAD) and learning Arabic in school. Additionally, this study addresses the interrelationships between EKAD and oral comprehension, lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic awareness upon the transition to reading to learn. Thirty typicaly…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Arabic, Gender Differences
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Denman, Feargus – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article examines how Russian speakers in Ireland delimit and describe (their/the) Russian language in relation to representations of standard Russian. It is based on analysis of discussions conducted between speakers of Russian living in Ireland, facilitated by the Our Languages (2008-2011) research project, investigating multilingualism and…
Descriptors: Russian, Metalinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries
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Nassif, Lama; Al Masaeed, Khaled – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study examines the multidialectal (i.e. diglossic) practices in the sociolinguistic repertoire of speech productions of 28 L2 Arabic learners who went through training using the integrated approach to learn two varieties of Arabic at the same time: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Levantine Arabic. Specifically, the study investigated…
Descriptors: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Standard Spoken Usage
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Monfared, Abbas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper investigates the attitudes of 246 English teachers from Outer and Expanding Circles (EC and OC) towards the global spread of English and the challenges underpinning international proficiency tests. Using a questionnaire, supplemented with interviews with a smaller group of teachers, this study explores how EC and OC teachers perceive…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language Variation
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Chen, Qi; Li, Ying; Xu, Yifang; Guo, Zihao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
In view of the rapid growth of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education institutions (HEIs), we observe the need to account for the educational and linguistic consequences of HEIs' decision to 'Englishise' their curricula. Especially, EMI in Asian countries (e.g. China) are fuelled by state-level initiatives to internationalise the…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Universities
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Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E.; Loureiro-Rodríguez, Verónica; Acar, Elif Fidan; Vélez Avilés, Jessica – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This study examines Puerto Rican bilinguals' attitudes towards five speech varieties (Spanish, English, Spanish with English lexical insertions, inter-sentential code-switching, and intra-sentential code-switching). While previous research on language attitudes in Puerto Rico has exclusively employed direct methods (i.e. interviews, surveys,…
Descriptors: Puerto Ricans, Code Switching (Language), Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Bozoglan, Hilal; Gok, Duygu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a mobile-assisted dialect awareness programme on the dialect attitudes of pre-service English language teachers in Turkey. The study adopted a pre-test and a post-test design including 58 first-grade pre-service English language teachers in two different classes. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Metalinguistics, Scores, Nonstandard Dialects
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Siegel, Jeff – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1999
Describes some of the inequities and obstacles faced by speakers of creoles termed "nonstandard" or minority dialects in formal education. Outlines proposals for dealing with these problems and describes initiatives that have already been taken--such as developing resources for teachers, running public awareness campaigns and using the students'…
Descriptors: Creoles, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Minorities, Language of Instruction