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Direct linkSugene 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
Stell, Gerald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study sheds light on the socio-economic factors determining the (re)location of sociolinguistic prestige in postcolonial environments. It uses the case of Namibia, an ethnolinguistically diverse African country that replaced Afrikaans -- an established lingua franca -- with English as its official language to weaken the hold of the formerly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Language Attitudes, Socioeconomic Influences
Buckingham, Louisa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Previous research has revealed that although EFL students may claim to prefer British/US accents they often have difficulty identifying them, especially when such accents may differ from "standard" accents presented in ELT materials. In the Gulf, English is widely used as a lingua franca or as a second language by the large expatriate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Pronunciation
Buckingham, Louisa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Research suggests that passing for a native English speaker (NES) is often perceived as desirable by teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and employers, and students may claim to prefer certain NES accents as learning models. While this may be partly motivated by the prevalence of a particular regional accent in ESL contexts or…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation, Dialects
Ahn, So-Yeon; Kang, Hyun-Sook – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This study explored South Korean university students' perceptions of different English varieties and their speakers, student attitudes towards the learning of English and its varieties, and the role of these attitudinal variables in the learning of English as a foreign language. One-hundred-one students who were enrolled in four sections of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Leung, Alex Ho-Cheong – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
This paper explores the purported negative influence of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) on child second language acquisition (SLA) by studying Hong Kong Cantonese children's listening ability in second language (L2) English. 31 kindergarten third graders aged 4;6 to 6, and 29 first year secondary students aged 11-14 who have had a Filipino…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Grade 3, Listening Skills
