Adult Leaners’ Recognition and Attitudes towards World Englishes Pronunciation

Chung, Daeun; Kim, Hae-Dong

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“…It is interesting to note that 5-year-old Korean and Singaporean children with different English learning experiences and English language abilities held similar attitudes towards AmE, SiE, and KoE. This result is somewhat inconsistent with previous literature on older Asian children (Matsuda and Friedrich 2011;Okumura 2005) and adults (Chung and Kim 2017;Tokumoto and Shibata 2011) who preferred IC varieties of English speech. Unlike the adults, both Korean and Singaporean children did not perceive IC English as 'more friendly', 'powerful', or 'intelligent' than OC and EC English varieties.…”

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“…All adjectives were positive. The terms 'smart' and 'friendly' have been used in adult studies (e.g., Ahn 2017;Chung and Kim 2017;McKenzie 2008). The adjective 'rich' was included because we believed that this term is directly related to measuring someone's socio-economical position .…”

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“…According to Ahn (2017), Korean English teachers believe that AmE is the only variety of English fit to be taught as it best represents the English language in the modern world. Korean adults also showed more positive attitudes toward IC varieties of English speech than EC or OC English varieties (Ahn 2017;Chung and Kim 2017). In a popular experiment conducted by the Educational Broadcasting System (EBS), Korean adults held negative attitudes towards Ban Ki-moon's (the UN secretary-general) speech when they did not know who the speaker was.…”

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This study investigates young Korean children’s attitudes toward three English varieties: American English (AmE), Singapore English (SiE), and Korean English (KoE). A total of 42 Korean children participated in this study. For data analysis purposes, the results were categorized according to the children’s age and their experience of exposure to formal English learning. In addition to this, 30 Singaporean children were also involved in the study, and their results were compared with the results of the younger group of Korean children. A mixed methodological approach, which included a modified verbal guise technique appropriate for use with children and semi-structured interviews, was also adopted. The results show that 5-year-old Korean and Singaporean children do not prefer one specific variety of English more than the other varieties of English. However, this was not the case for 12-year-old Korean children. These older Korean children preferred AmE and SiE more than KoE, and the “speaker’s pronunciation” was considered to be the critical feature in determining these attitudes. The findings suggest that Korean children’s developing attitudes toward a particular variety of English emerge sometime during their elementary school years.

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South Korean perceptions of “native” speaker of English in social and news media via big data analytics

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2020

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca

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This study investigates the South Korean perception of “native” speaker of English (NSE), namely won-eo-min and ne-i-ti-beu in Korean, with an examination of the use of such terms in the news and social media. To do this, the study examined news topics covered in the South Korean news media including newspapers and television news channels that mention or discuss these terms. Secondly, words used along with these two terms in social media forums such as Twitter or weblogs were examined. In order to realise this, two major data mining programs called the BIGKinds program (Korea Press Foundation, Big Kinds: News Big Data & Analysis, https://www.kinds.or.kr/; accessed 14 May 2018) and the Social Metrics program (Daumsoft, Social metricsTM, http://academy.some.co.kr/login.html; accessed 1 May 2018) were employed. This study shows that the concept of the “native” speaker in the forms of won-eo-min and ne-i-ti-beu is deeply manifested in the minds of South Koreans, especially when talking about the pronunciation of “native” speakers as the model of “correct” pronunciation of English. Such perceptions need to be critically revisited in an era where English is the most common medium of communication in the global community.

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Adult Leaners’ Recognition and Attitudes towards World Englishes Pronunciation

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Korean Children’s Attitudes toward Varieties of English: The Role of Age and English Learning Environment

Korean Children’s Attitudes toward Varieties of English: The Role of Age and English Learning Environment

South Korean perceptions of “native” speaker of English in social and news media via big data analytics

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