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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"language attitude"”.
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Regional Accent Discrimination in Hiring Decisions: A Language Attitude Study
Evidence is presented to support the notion that US regional accents influence decisions in the hiring process. Fifty-six people who hire for a variety of corporations participated in a computerized survey, during which they listened to speakers from regions of the US reading the same passage. …
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A test of the effects of linguistic stereotypes in children's animated film: A language attitude study.
… personality traits (Work Ethic, Wealth, Attitude, Intelligence), assigned jobs/life positions, and provided personal information, movie watching habits, and exposure to foreign languages. Results indicate: (1) MUSE ranks higher and AAVE lower than other speakers, (2) jobs/life positions …
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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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Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes Toward Language Diversity
This study examines pre-service teachers' attitudes toward language diversity and linguistically diverse students. Two hundred seventy-one teacher education students were surveyed to determine relative effects of demographic, mediating variables and psychosocial variables on language attitude as …
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Qualitative study of some effects of using English as a language of instruction at Standard 2 and 5 in the Botswana education system, where learners are not primary language speakers of English
… purpose of this study is to address the issue of language in education policy in Botswana where English is used as a language of instruction at the lower levels of primary education, in this instance focusing on grades 2 and 5. Bearing in mind that English is not the learners' first language, this …
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Language attitudes and identity - influences on language use among two Coloured communities in Kensington-Factreton
An attitude study which made use of a cross-sectional survey design, and which obtained the responses of 60 coloured respondents living in the Kensington-Factreton area, Western Cape, is reported on. The probability stratified random sample was equally representative in terms of class (working- and …
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English Teachers and English Language Learners in Middle School Classrooms: Perspectives and Practices
… lags significantly behind that of their language-majority peers.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes, opinions and practices of middle school language arts/reading teachers regarding the inclusion of ELL students and the support they receive in their classrooms. …
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Variation in the Educated Spoken Arabic of Iraq : A sociolinguistic study
… Spoken Arabic (ESA) of Iraq to speakers' attitudes, and to link these variables with sex and regional differences in a group of informants. The informants are a number of educated Iraqis who are available in the U. K. In the study of language attitude the methods used involved a …
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Lietuvos gyventojų kalbinės nuostatos rusų kalbos atžvilgiu /
… topic of this bachelor's thesis is "Linguistic Attitudes of Lithuanian People towards the Russian Language". The research aims are to determine the linguistic attitudes of Lithuanians towards the Russian language, how these attitudes have (not) changed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, …
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The effect of borders on the linguistic production and perception of regional identity in Louisville, Kentucky
… as nonlinguists‟ perceptions and attitudes have been generally assumed to be secondary to the analysis of “real” data, such as the phonetic and lexical variables used in traditional dialectology. Louisville, Kentucky is considered as a case study for examining how dialect and …
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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 STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING COMPREHENSION AND STUDENTS' ATTITUDE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SINGAPORE
… the relationships between five variables: • attitude to teachers • attitude to learning • attitude lo language • attitude to Mathematics and the level of reading and comprehension in English. The relationships an; examined for the 3 main ethnic groupings i.e. Chinese, Malay, Indian for each …
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Language maintenance and shift: a survey of isiZulu speakers residing in Soshanguve
The study’s main objective was to investigate the language maintenance and shift amongst the isiZulu language speakers residing in Soshanguve, a township in which Sotho-Tswana languages (or Sepitori) dominate. The most current South African Census offers quantifiable insight into the variety of …
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Psycho-Social Factors Influencing the Learning of a Second or a Foreign Language
… With bilingualism now a world-wide phenomenon, language has become a powerful force for unity both at home and abroad. This, along with increased immigration, has emphasized the need for the study of second or foreign languages. In the United States, bilingualism and the learning of English as a …
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The impact of world Englishes on language assessment: rater attitude, rating behavior, and challenges
By centralizing the issue of test fairness in language proficiency assessments, this study responds to a call by researchers for developing greater social responsibility in the language testing agenda. As inquiries into language attitude and psychology indicate, there is an underlying uncertainty …
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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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The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts
… Moreover, to understand the participants’ language background and language attitudes toward accents, a survey was conducted.Eighty-eight EFL university students in Taiwan were randomly assigned to one of two experimental groups, identification (ID) (9 males, 20 females) or same/different …
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A sociolinguistic investigation of Acehnese with a focus on West Acehnese: a stigmatised dialect.
… differentiate the two dialects are analysed and attitudes of Northern and Western Acehnese speakers towards the dialects are investigated. To obtain primary data from native speakers, intensive fieldwork in The Province of Aceh was carried out. An Acehnese wordlist from Daud & Durie’s (1999) …
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Consciência metalinguística na aquisição bilíngue : estudo de caso de uma criança bilíngue em espanhol e português do Brasil aos nove-dez anos de idade
O presente trabalho tem como principal objetivo apresentar uma visão global do processo de aquisição bilíngue de uma criança em Espanhol (E) e Português do Brasil (PB). Trata-se de um estudo de caso em condições desfavoráveis ao bilinguismo infantil até os 9 anos de idade da criança em observação. …
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Crossing the lexicon: Anglicisms in the German hip hop community
… sphere. In order to better understand this language contact situation, this research project investigates anglicisms—instances of English language material in a German language context—in the German hip hop community, where the use of novel anglicisms is especially frequent. This …
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