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Kutlu, Ethan; Tiv, Mehrgol; Wulff, Stefanie; Titone, Debra – Applied Linguistics, 2022
"Standard" varieties are often perceived as morally superior compared with "nonstandard" varieties (Hill 2008). Consequently, these differences lead to ideologies that racialize "nonstandard" varieties (Rosa 2016), and increase the negative stereotypes towards "nonstandard" varieties (Giles and Watson 2013).…
Descriptors: Race, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
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Hsu, Tammy Huei-Lien – Language Testing, 2016
This study explores the attitudes of raters of English speaking tests towards the global spread of English and the challenges in rating speakers of Indian English in descriptive speaking tasks. The claims put forward by language attitude studies indicate a validity issue in English speaking tests: listeners tend to hold negative attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning