Japanese college students' attitudes towards Japan English and American English

Sasayama, Shoko

doi:10.1080/01434632.2013.767341

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“…Do they expect that the person with the FA -especially themselves -should make a bigger effort to get rid of the undesired accent? It is clear that multilinguals can have ambiguous attitudes towards FAs (see Sasayama, 2013).…”

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“…This could be linked to political correctness, namely a wish not to appear prejudiced against the FA of others, which does not apply to one's own FA. It could also reflect a wish to sound more like a native speaker and not stand out as "outsider" (Desiderio, 2004;Glab, 2014;Sasayama, 2013).…”

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“…A minority of foreign-accented speakers prefer, however, to retain the L2 identity that their speech signals (Yu, 2010). Sasayama (2013) found that while her 44 Japanese college students preferred American-accented speech rather than Japanese-accented English, they still wanted the latter variant to be accepted internationally. Particularly in countries or regions with strong historical or institutional ties with the English language, greater numbers of foreignaccented speakers express a preference for retaining their variety of English.…”

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“…Perhaps partly to mitigate the risk of negative evaluations of FA speech, L2 speakers often aspire to native-standards of speech (Derwing, 2003;Sasayama, 2013). Many tried and failed, such as Teresa Desiderio who remembers her attempts at getting rid of her Italian accent in English when joining an American university: "I was sent to the Speech Clinic to correct my speech (...).…”

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Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users

Dewaele

McCloskey

2014

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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The present study investigates inter-individual variation (linked to personality traits, multilingualism and sociobiographical variables) in the attitudes that 2035 multilinguals have of their own and others' Foreign Accent (FA). Data were collected through an on-line questionnaire. We found that extraverted multilinguals, who were emotionally stable and tolerant of ambiguity were significantly less bothered by the FA of others. Only more neurotic multilinguals were bothered by their own FA. Unexpectedly, participants who knew more languages to a higher level were more negative about the FA of others and their own. However, participants who grew up in an ethnically diverse environment, who had lived abroad and who were working in an ethically diverse environment were significantly more positive about FA. While sex had no effect on the attitudes towards the FA of others, women had a more negative attitude towards their own FA. Education level and age were also linked to attitudes towards FA. The findings thus show that how much multilinguals are bothered by FA falls partly outside their conscious control as it depends on their personality, their language learning history, their current linguistic practices and their sociobiographical background.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users

Dewaele

McCloskey

2014

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…Much of this research has been conducted amongst university students in Japan (see McKenzie, 2008aMcKenzie, , 2010McKenzie and Gilmore, 2015 early view;Cargile, Takai and Rodriguez, 2006;Sasayama, 2013) and the results again point to the differentiation of language attitudes within status and social attractiveness dimensions. Taken together, the findings of these studies have revealed that Japanese users tend to evaluate L1 English varieties, and especially forms of English spoken in the US, most positively in terms of status.…”

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The competence and warmth of Thai students’ attitudes towards varieties of English: the effect of gender and perceptions of L1 diversity

McKenzie

Kitikanan

Boriboon

2015

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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Previous language attitude research indicates that presenting speech forms allows listeners to index information about and attach social meaning to the perceived group(s) of speakers. Despite the volume of research undertaken elsewhere in Asia, there appear to be no indepth studies investigating Thai nationals' evaluations of specific varieties of English speech. This large-scale study examines 204 Thai university students' attitudes towards forms of UK, US, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and Indian English, provided by highly proficient female speakers. The study also examines the extent to which Thai students' perceptions of linguistic diversity in their L1 and their gender affect their attitudes. Multivariate analysis demonstrated UK, US and Thai English speech was ranked significantly higher than other Asian forms of English, for competence and warmth, attitudinal dimensions consistent with recent findings in social cognition. Further analysis indicated females and those most positive towards L1 variation expressed significantly higher levels of ingroup loyalty towards Thai English speakers. The findings are compared and contrasted with the results of equivalent studies undertaken in other Asian contexts and, given recent cutting-edge research in social cognition confirming the primacy of warmth judgements, calls for language attitude researchers to consider speaker warmth ratings more fully in future studies.

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Attitudes Toward Saudi English: Decentering the Inner-Circle

Alzahrani

2022

J Psycholinguist Res

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This article reports on the first study to investigate Saudis’ attitudes toward Saudi English (SauE). To situate Saudi speakers’ attitudes within the sociolinguistic ecology of language use, this study invited 80 Saudi participants to respond to an audio stimulus featuring Indian English alongside SauE in an attempt to more realistically depict the use of English use in Saudi Arabia. This task was carried out using an Interactive Verbal Guise Technique (IVGT), an innovative approach in which listeners evaluate English varieties as they are used in a naturally occurring interaction. To supplement this indirect method, participants were asked to fill out an attitude questionnaire consisting of closed-ended and open-ended questions. The findings of the IVGT showed that participants rated the Saudi speaker highly in both power and solidarity scales. The responses on the attitude questionnaire also revealed expressions of ownership and legitimacy of SauE. By decentering inner-circle Englishes in the study of language attitudes, the results of this study suggest that ecologically valid studies of language attitudes can yield results which express ownership in local varieties of English.

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Japanese college students' attitudes towards Japan English and American English

Cited by 34 publications

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Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users

Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users

The competence and warmth of Thai students’ attitudes towards varieties of English: the effect of gender and perceptions of L1 diversity

Attitudes Toward Saudi English: Decentering the Inner-Circle

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