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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Language attitudes"”.
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Language Attitudes Among English-Learning Hungarian Students
… its position as a lingua franca, as well as the language attitudes of Hungarian English-speaking students, based on an online questionnaire. Additionally, the properties and types of bilingualism are discussed in the beginning of the thesis. Respective to this research, the following three …
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Ideology, language attitudes and status of Punjabi in Pakistan
… and multilingual country; approximately 72 languages are spoken there including Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, Brahavi, Saraiki, and Shina. Punjabi is the language of 44% of the Pakistanis, but it has no official status and is not used in educational or governmental settings. This …
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Language attitudes and ideologies in Malta : a mixed-methods study
… of the value and status assigned to these two languages, this study sets out to investigate parents’ and their children’s language attitudes and ideologies towards Maltese and English, by using qualitative and quantitative research methods. In the qualitative study, semi-structured interviews …
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Perceptions of Parisian French: From Language Attitudes to Speech Perception
… spoken in the Parisian region. A large scale language attitudes survey provided evidence that Parisians possess fine-grained mental maps that geographically represent linguistic prestige. These maps were shown to be influenced much more by cities' reputations than by perceptions of their …
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A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Language Attitudes Among Youth in Morocco
This dissertation investigates how language attitudes affect linguistic stratification and language use among Moroccan youth. The language situation in urban Morocco offers a unique venue for exploring how different linguistic codes, be they exogenous or endogenous, are represented and seek …
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Afro-Latino Language Attitudes and Identity in the United States and Latin America
… collectively study the identity and linguistic attitudes of Afro-Latinos in the diaspora and in the homeland. The diaspora being the United States and the homeland being Latin America and Bogotá, Colombia. This study employs Tabouret-Keller’s (1998) concepts on language as acts of identity and …
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Non-racial schooling in selected Cape Town schools : language, attitudes and language learning
This study examines some elements of the language environment, language learning processes, and language inter-actions between child and teacher, and child and child in the changing South African education system. As more classrooms become non-racial, new dimensions are arising in language use and …
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Language Attitudes and Code-switching Behaviour in a Multilingual Educational Context: The Case of Luxembourg
This thesis is a sociolinguistic investigation of language attitudes and code-switching behaviour in Luxembourg’s multilingual education system. Through a large-scale questionnaire study of language attitudes and an ethnographic study of attitudes and multilingual classroom behaviour, this study …
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Language attitudes and identity - influences on language use among two Coloured communities in Kensington-Factreton
… terms of class (working- and middle class), home language (Afrikaans and English), and gender. The study attempted to record recent language attitudes towards the varieties of Afrikaans and English, plus Xhosa, the influence of societal changes on language attitudes and how they, in turn, …
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Language Attitudes and Reported Usage of the Standard and Vernacular Varieties of Guaraní in Paraguay
This study examines the languages attitudes surrounding the standard (Academic Guaraní) and vernacular (Jopará) varieties of Guaraní, as well as the reported language use for Spanish and the two varieties of Guaraní. The study addresses language attitudes as manifestations of pride, loyalty, and …
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LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION AFGHAN-AMERICANS AND IRANIAN-AMERICANS TOWARD DARI AND PERSIAN
… goal of this study is to investigate the current language attitudes of first and second generation Afghan and Iranian-Americans toward the two varieties Dari and Persian of the Indo-Iranian language Farsi. Research on this subject can facilitate future endeavors toward heritage language …
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The relationship of academic achievement to the language use and language attitudes of bilingual Chicago youths of Mexican descent
… information regarding the use of and attitudes toward Spanish and English. HSD informants were interviewed orally; HSS and CS informants filled out a written version of the HSD interview.
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Gay American English: Language Attitudes, Language Perceptions, and Gay Men's Discourses of Connectedness to Family, Lgbtq Networks, and the American South
<p>This dissertation explores attitudes toward and perceptions of gay male varieties of American English, or Gay American English (GAE). Building on language attitude research in folk dialectology and social psychology, I use both quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyze interview data, …
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A Comparative study of language attitudes, use and identity in two returnee migrant contexts: Greek-Brazilians and Greek-Germans in Greece
Language is an important tool in the construction and expression of ethnic and socio-cultural identity. This study explores language use, attitudes and code-switching practices, in the (re)construction and (re)positioning of identity in a migrant context of three generations of Greek-Brazilian and …
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Language attitudes in relation to language functions: An investigation of the attitudes of the Botswana Cambridge 'O' Level Senior Certificate (COSC) students
This research study attempts to assess the language attitudes among Botswana Cambridge '0' level Senior Certificate (COSC) students in relation to the official functions of Setswana and English. The study assumes that: (1) there is a general positive attitude towards English and Setswana and that …
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Language attitudes, genre and culture capital : a case study of EAL students' access to a foundation course in the Humanities at UCT
This dissertation explores the extent to which language and genre can be used to facilitate access for a group of first year students who have English as an additional language in the Humanities at the University of Cape Town enrolled in a foundation course. The use of the genre of the praise poem …
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Language usage and language attitudes among education consumers : the experience of Filipinos in Australia and in three linguistic communities in the Philippines / by Iluminado C. Nical.
A comparative investigation of language usage and language attitudes in relation to Filipino/Tagalog, Philippine languages other than Tagalog and English among senior high school students and their parents in two countries, the Philippines and Australia. The study provides an historical overview of …
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On the fringes of a diaspora : an appraisal of the literature on language diaspora and globalization in relation to a family of Tamil-speaking, Sri Lankan migrants to South Africa
While the language attitudes and reported behaviours of migrants have long been of interest to linguists, educationalists and sociologists, increased levels of global mobility and technological activity are changing the nature of migration. This mini-thesis considers competing paradigms of mobility …
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