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Isbell, Daniel R.; Crowther, Dustin – Applied Linguistics, 2023
As the global importance of English and its proportion of non-native speakers have continued to grow, research on Global Englishes has prioritized non-native speakers' changing attitudes toward non-native varieties. To investigate changes in attitudes among 'Inner Circle' English speakers, we conceptually replicated Lindemann's (2005) survey of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Undergraduate Students
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Zachary Maher; Carolyn Mazzei; Ebony Terrell Shockley; Tatiana Thonesavanh; Jan Edwards – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Despite decades of sociolinguistic research, African American Language (AAL) remains stigmatized throughout the United States education system. There have been proposals to counteract this through curricula and/or ideological interventions targeted at teachers that seek to validate AAL while maintaining Dominant American English (DAE) as an…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Yaron Matras; Katie Harrison; Leonie Elisa Gaiser; Stephanie Connor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Drawing on interviews with staff from Language Supplementary Schools (LSS) in Manchester (UK), we discuss the emergence of makeshift ideologies whereby actors seek to legitimise choices and policies of heritage language transmission in the diaspora setting. Actors discuss the use of regional and vernacular varieties, the consideration given to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Community Schools, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
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Ciriza, Maria del Puy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This article compares Spanish proficiency assessments across three states (Texas, Arizona, and California) in relation to four overarching themes: (a) verification methods of proficiency; (b) test-task authenticity; (c) impact of pedagogical content knowledge in test performance; and (d) conceptions of language 'correctness' on the scoring…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Spanish
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Joseph, John E.; Rutten, Gijsbert; Vosters, Rik – Language Policy, 2020
Over 50 years ago, the Norwegian-American linguist Einar Haugen published a seminal paper entitled 'Dialect, language and nation' (Am Anthropol 68:922-935, 1966b), in which he expounds his four-step model of standardization, explaining the development from dialect to standard following a process of norm selection, codification, acceptance and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Linguistic Theory, Standards
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Sakire Erbay Çetinkaya; Mustafa Naci Kayaoglu – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2024
Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) refers to teaching English as a truly international medium via exposing learners to diversity, adopting a broad cultural view, fostering sensitivity and responsibility, being sensitive to the local culture of learning, and equipping learners with communication strategies. To put this lately…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Furkan Sevket Kir – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated the extent to which racialisation shapes EFL learners' conceptualizations of the 'native speaker' construct through an experimental design. Three hundred and fourteen university students studying at English-medium universities in Turkey were invited to take an online matched guise test. They were assigned to either the…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
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Aysu, Semahat – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This study aims to compare the opinions of optional and compulsory preparatory class students about learning English and the target culture. Furthermore, students' reasons to learn English are examined in terms of independent variables (gender, going abroad and status of prep class). In the present study, data are gathered through a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Muna Abd El-Raziq; Natalia Meir; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Arabic is characterized by diglossia, which involves the use of two language varieties within a single speech community: Spoken Arabic (SpA) for everyday speech and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) for formal speech and reading/writing. Earlier research suggests that some Arabic-speaking children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might favor MSA…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Dialects, Language Variation, Arabic
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Lee, Bradford J.; Bailey, Justin L. – Language Awareness, 2023
While listeners tend to downgrade speakers' accent and comprehensibility when they perceive them to be from a different language community--a process known as reverse linguistic stereotyping (RLS)--research has generally relied solely on quantitative data such as Likert scale ratings. The current study sought to extend the analysis further by…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Stereotypes, Ethnicity, Intelligibility
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Myung-Hye Huh – English Teaching, 2023
This study explored rhetorical devices and their effect on forming coherent and cohesive wholes in the writing of 61 EFL students. When analyzing their writing using the five-paragraph essay format, 57% of students deviated from the format, with some resorting to their L1 rhetorical structures (the indirect group) and others employing rhetorical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Evaluation
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István Jánk – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Teachers' language attitudes play a key role in their decision-making, evaluation, and behaviour in the classroom. This is as true in a monolingual environment as it is in a bilingual or multilingual linguistic situation, but it is fair to assume that the two different linguistic environments are associated with the dominance of different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
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Smith-Christmas, Cassie; NicLeòid, Sìleas L. – Language Policy, 2020
This paper compares the sociolinguistic trajectory of a 'latent' speaker mother to that of a 'new' speaker mother. Drawing on Shandler (TDR 48(1):19-43, 2004), it introduces the term 'post-vernacular FLP' as a means to conceptualise the latent speaker mother's emblematic use of Gaelic with her child as a 'seed' from which language revitalisation…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Indo European Languages, Mothers, Sociolinguistics
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Shibata, Miki – English Language Teaching, 2021
According to previous studies, Japanese learners of English (JLEs) have a negative perception of their own variety of English along with a strong desire to sound native-like. Language attitudes toward L2 (second language) English accents may affect their active participation in English communication situations. The present study is cross-national…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ashley Lenz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined and compared language ideologies and attitudes among dual language program (Spanish-English) graduates regarding their use of Spanish and perceptions of their bilingual education experience through surveys and semi-structured interviews. Drawing from the theory of ideology, data was analyzed using both quantitative and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes, Bilingual Education Programs
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