NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Eisenchlas, Susana A.; Michael, Rowan B. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Sociolinguistic research on language attitudes has revealed that non-standard accented speakers are usually perceived more negatively than members of the dominant speech community. Few studies, however, have examined whether a speaker's ethnicity, evidenced by nonlinguistic factors such as appearance, may play a role in listeners' perception of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Ethnicity, Pronunciation, College Faculty
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sioufi, Rana; Bourhis, Richard Y.; Allard, Réal – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Do French-Canadian (FC) minorities in New Brunswick and Ontario remain as committed as majority Francophone Quebecers in developing their vitality within Canada's bilingual belt? FCs constitute host communities for interprovincial migrants of FC and English-Canadian (EC) background who can bolster or weaken the vitality of FCs. How FCs and ECs…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, French Canadians, Nationalism, Immigrants
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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