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A study of Taiwanese university students’ English use, learning goals and attitudes toward English as a lingua franca

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Luo W.-H.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2018
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vol. 8
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issue 4
775-794
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  This study investigates Taiwanese university students’ experience of English use, aims of learning English and attitudes toward English as a lingua franca (ELF). The notion of ELF has been researched in the field of English language teaching. However, English teaching practice targeting native-speaker (NS) norms is still prevailing in English classrooms. To better respond to learner needs of using English in the age of globalization, this study explores learners’ English learning and use in relation to their attitudes toward ELF. Research methods including interviewing and questionnaire survey were employed to collect data from English majors at a university in Taiwan. The study finds that the learners were aware of the communicative value of ELF and actually used ELF in intercultural communication. The learners’ use of English in context affected their attitudes toward ELF and aims of learning English. It is found that the learners preferred English conforming to NS norms; yet, they wished to learn local variation of English concerning accents and word use. In light of the findings, the author suggests that English teachers incorporate an ELF perspective into English instruction and help learners develop intercultural awareness and competencies.
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BUILDING UP THAI EFL STUDENTS’ POSITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARD THEIR NON-NATIVE ENGLISH ACCENTED SPEECH WITH THE USE OF PHONETICS WEBSITE

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Tananuraksakul N.
Teaching English with Technology
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2017
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vol. 17
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issue 4
52-63
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This paper examined the hypothesis that Thai EFL students’ positive attitudes toward their non-native English accented speech could be promoted by the use of University of Iowa’s Sounds of American English website, known as the “number 1 phonetics website”. Fifty-two undergraduate students in the field of sciences participated in the investigation, which took place at two different stages. The findings of both stages mirrored non-native-like identity they perceptually obtained and native-like identity they socially aspired to possess. The findings of the second stage confirmed the hypothesis to some extent because of their synchronous feelings of slightly decreased embarrassment and increased pride and offer two insightful directions for EFL teachers. Firstly, irrespective of students’ actual English accented speech, there is a need to promote their positive attitudes toward their own accent at an early age. Secondly, helping them understand that speaking intelligibly is more important than sounding like a native speaker.
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INFLUENCES OF TEACHER POWER AND THE USE OF PHONETICS WEBSITE OVER EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD SPEAKING ENGLISH INTELLIGIBLY

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Tananuraksakul N.
Teaching English with Technology
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2019
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vol. 19
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issue 4
27-36
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This paper investigates two hypotheses: 1) EFL undergraduate students have positive attitudes towards the use of the phonetics website; and 2) teacher power can greatly influence their positive attitudes toward speaking English intelligibly. Research outcomes derive from questionnaire (n=79), crosschecked with interview data (n=47), revealing their alignments. The first hypothesis was confirmed at a high level; the second was partially supported. Teacher power appeared to be distracted by power relations in interactions between native and non-native English speakers and among non-native English speakers themselves. The study offers two insightful directions for EFL teachers.
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Recenzja: Anastasija Kostiučenko, "Sprachen und ihre Sprecher in Litauen. Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zum sozialen Status des Litauischen, Polnischen und Russischen" (Języki i mówcy na Litwie. Badania socjolingwistyczne nad społecznym statusem języków litewskiego, polskiego i rosyjskiego), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2016

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Zielińska A.
Acta Baltico-Slavica
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2019
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vol. 43
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Review: Anastasija Kostiučenko, Sprachen und ihre Sprecher in Litauen. Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zum sozialen Status des Litauischen, Polnischen und Russischen (Languages and their speakers in Lithuania: A sociolinguistic study on the social status of Lithuanian, Polish and Russian), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2016.This article offers a review of the monograph Sprachen und ihre Sprecher in Litauen. Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zum sozialen Status des Litauischen, Polnischen und Russischen (Languages and their speakers in Lithuania: A sociolinguistic study on the social status of Lithuanian, Polish and Russian) by Anastasija Kostiučenko. Her volume presents a study on attitudes to Lithuanian, Polish and Russian in Lithuania, applying the matched guise technique developed by Canadian psychologist Wallace E. Lambert in the 1960s. The monograph is an important voice in the discussion on the methods of sociolinguistic study. This review includes some polemical observations. Recenzja: Anastasija Kostiučenko, Sprachen und ihre Sprecher in Litauen. Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zum sozialen Status des Litauischen, Polnischen und Russischen (Języki i mówcy na Litwie. Badania socjolingwistyczne nad społecznym statusem języków litewskiego, polskiego i rosyjskiego), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2016.Artykuł przedstawia recenzję książki Sprachen und ihre Sprecher in Litauen. Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zum sozialen Status des Litauischen, Polnischen und Russischen Anastasiji Kostiučenko. Monografia prezentuje badania nad nastawieniem do języków (language attitude) litewskiego, polskiego i rosyjskiego na Litwie. Autorka zastosowała metodę kanadyjskiego psychologa Wallace’a E. Lamberta matched guise z lat 60. XX wieku. Książka stanowi ważny głos w dyskusji na temat metod badań socjolingwistycznych. Recenzja zawiera elementy polemiczne.
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Sociolinguistic Conditioning of Phonetic Category Realisation in Non-Native Speech

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Waniek-Klimczak E.
Research in Language
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2009
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vol. 7
149-166
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The realisation of phonetic categories reflects a complex relationship between individual phonetic parameters and both linguistic and extra-linguistic conditioning of language usage. The present paper investigates the effect of selected socio-linguistic variables, such as the age, the amount of language use and cultural/social distance in English used by Polish immigrants to the U.S. Individual parameters used in the realisation of the category ‘voice’ have been found to vary in their sensitivity to extra-linguistic factors: while the production of target-like values of all parameters is related to the age, it is the closure duration that is most stable in the correspondence to the age and level of language proficiency. The VOT and vowel duration, on the other hand, prove to be more sensitive to the amount of language use and attitudinal factors.
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Sociolinguistic Conditioning of Phonetic Category Realisation in Non-Native Speech

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Waniek-Klimczak E.
Research in Language
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2009
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vol. 7
149-166
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The realisation of phonetic categories reflects a complex relationship between individual phonetic parameters and both linguistic and extra-linguistic conditioning of language usage. The present paper investigates the effect of selected socio-linguistic variables, such as the age, the amount of language use and cultural/social distance in English used by Polish immigrants to the U.S. Individual parameters used in the realisation of the category ‘voice’ have been found to vary in their sensitivity to extra-linguistic factors: while the production of target-like values of all parameters is related to the age, it is the closure duration that is most stable in the correspondence to the age and level of language proficiency. The VOT and vowel duration, on the other hand, prove to be more sensitive to the amount of language use and attitudinal factors.
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Теоретичні підходи до вивчення ставлення до мови

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Muzyka M.
Studia Ukrainica Posnaniensia
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2021
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vol. 9
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issue 2
51-58
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Artykuł analizuje literaturę naukową dotyczącą badań w zakresie kształtowania postawy językowej, a także poglądy dydaktyków w kwestii socjolingwistycznej wykładni pojęcia postawy językowej. Wytyczono kluczowe kierunki badawcze w zakresie budowania postawy językowej oraz podkreślono szczególną wagę zgromadzonej wiedzy w przedmiotowej kwestii oraz aspekty badań w zakresie kształtowania postawy językowej w nauce ukraińskiej. Zbadanie kwestii kształtowania postawy językowej jest poważnym tematem współczesnego dyskursu naukowego, gdyż język pełni swoje społeczno-kulturowe funkcje. Znajomość postawy językowej umożliwia podjęcie skutecznych działań w zakresie planowania polityki językowej oraz kształtowania tożsamości nosicieli języka. Postawa językowa w życiu społecznym pozwala zarówno oceniać stopień lojalności wobec konkretnego języka, jak i wnioskować o funkcjach, które język pełni w społeczeństwie. Jest ona instrumentem pozwalającym zbudować efektywną politykę językową, wskazać na językowe utożsamienie nosiciela i wywieść wnioski o reputacji i stopniu poszanowania języka.
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This article focuses on the analysis of the scientific literature on investigating language attitude, theoretical approaches to the language attitude analyzed, the core paradigms of investigation connected to studying and distinguishing of language attitude presented, as well as the importance of data gathered regarding language attitudes and the specific nature of the language attitude studies in Ukraine that are analyzed. Studying language attitudes is popular, as the language which is investigated has numerous sociocultural functions, and knowledge of language attitudes helps to achieve success in language policy planning. Moreover, influences on linguistic personality and language attitudes allow evaluation not only of the loyalty to a particular language, but also the functional value of each of these. Language attitude is an instrument which allows successful language policy to be constructed, and also informs about the language identification of speaker, as well as about language status and prestige.
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