Attitudes of Slovene L2 Speakers of English to Six Native Varieties of English
The paper presents the results of an experiment whose purpose was to study the attitudes towards six L1 varieties of English by Slovene students of English.
Smiljana Komar
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Language attitudes and religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK [PDF]
In this article I report on results of a Matched Guise Tests (MGT) study investigating attitudes towards Bohtan (BHKr) and Maraş Kurmanji (MRKr) spoken among the UK diaspora.
Yilmaz, B.
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Variation of Spoken Slovene in the Case of Geographically Mobile Speakers
Based on the pioneering variationist research on Slovene language material, the article explores the authentic language use of speakers of the Cerkno dialect who commute daily or weekly to work or school in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana.
Maja Bitenc
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Implicit and Explicit Language Attitudes: Mapping Linguistic Prejudice and Attitude Change in England [PDF]
This timely volume constitutes the first book-length account of implicit as well as explicit language attitudes. It details the findings of a large-scale study, incorporating cutting-edge implicit and self-report instruments adapted from social ...
Mckenzie, Robert, Mcneill, Andrew
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Social and structural aspects of language contact and change
This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others ...
Schumacher, Jennifer +15 more
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Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch
This contribution investigates the attitudes of Flemish first language speakers towards Turkish-Flemish speakers of Dutch as a second language. We conducted a 2 x 2 x 2 speaker evaluation experiment measuring the effects of accent (native vs.
Moira Van Puyvelde +3 more
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Language Use and Language Attitudes of Sumbawanese Speakers in Bali
This study examines the language maintenance model for a local language in another language community, specifically to examine Sumbawanese language maintenance in the Balinese community.
S. Menggo, I. M. Suastra
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German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics
It is well-known that contact between speakers of different languages or varieties leads to dynamics in many respects. From a grammatical perspective, especially contact between closely related languages/varieties fosters contact-induced innovations. The
Nove, Chaya R. +9 more
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Conflits linguistiques invisibles : une communauté romande au bord de la mer Noire
The paper explores the concurrence between two Romance languages, Francoprovençal and French, in a winegrowers’ community on the Northern Black sea coast, called Chabag (Shabo). It was founded by migrants from the Swiss canton of Vaud in 1822.
Natalia Bichurina
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Age-related differences in the motivation of learning English as a foreign language: Attitudes, selves and motivated learning behavior. [PDF]
Our study describes the motivation for learning English as a foreign language in three distinct learner populations: secondary school pupils, university students, and adult language learners. Questionnaire data were collected from 623 Hungarian students.
Judit Kormos +3 more
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