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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Language use and attitudes"”.
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The case of the "innocuous" middle-class migrant employee: English language use and attitudes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
… an increasing change in focus from the English Language Teaching (ELT) domain, to a more sociolinguistic and economic one (Boyle, 2012; Karmani, 2005; Randall & Samimi, 2010; Weber, 2011). While these studies have been significant to the field of World Englishes, no study has particularly …
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Language, identity and nationhood: language use and attitudes among Xhosa students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
This thesis is a study of patterns of language attitudes and use among Xhosa home language speakers at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Speakers of Xhosa, according to Statistics South Africa 2000, form the second largest speech community in South Africa (17.9% of the total …
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Forecasting the vitality of the Fur language: A study in language use patterns and attitudes in Darfur
<p>The Fur language of Darfur, Sudan has been undergoing a decades-long language shift to the more dominant and prestigious Arabic spoken throughout the country. However, a decade of conflict in Darfur has brought greater awareness of ethnic identity and disrupted the previously-documented language …
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Stop production in Spanish-English bilingual children
… early sounds in children’s acquisition and have specific features that can be measured and compared crosslinguistically. Spanish voiceless stops have shorter voice onset time values than English voiceless stops, and Spanish voiced stops vary allophonically to approximants, a process that …
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Shifting family bilingualism: two South African case studies
… sociolinguistic study describes the home language practices of two Afrikaans/English bilingual families, living in two middle-class English-dominant neighbourhoods, with the youngest children attending an English-medium primary school. In this study, I investigate if these families …
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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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Intercultural awareness and intercultural communication through English: an investigation of Thai English language users in higher education
… emphasis on the cultural aspects of English language teaching. However, in settings where English is used as a global lingua franca the cultural associations of the language are complex and the role culture plays in successful communication has yet to be extensively investigated. To conduct …