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McInerney, Erin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The many permutations of spoken English have called for an interrogation into the notions of 'standard English' and 'native accents'. Despite their problematic nature, these terms remain commonly used, and familiarity with 'standard', inner-circle varieties of English is typical among L2 English speakers, differences in education and language…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation
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
Yook, Cheongmin; Lindemann, Stephanie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This study investigates how the attitudes of 60 Korean university students towards five varieties of English are affected by the identification of the speaker's nationality and ethnicity. The study employed both a verbal guise technique and questions eliciting overt beliefs and preferences related to learning English. While the majority of the…
Descriptors: Role, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, College Students
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

Anderson, Carolyn; And Others – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1983
Examines viewers' perceptions of characters and their speech to see if: (1) the language of the characters corresponds to the language of Black speech communities as described by sociolinguists; (2) White viewers perceive language as important in their perceptions of the characters; and (3) White viewers are more likely to identify with speakers…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns, Language Role