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Shibata, Miki – English Language Teaching, 2021
According to previous studies, Japanese learners of English (JLEs) have a negative perception of their own variety of English along with a strong desire to sound native-like. Language attitudes toward L2 (second language) English accents may affect their active participation in English communication situations. The present study is cross-national…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kalra, Rusma; Thanavisuth, Chayada – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This research aims to explore how Thai speakers of English perceive their Asian peers' accented English and evaluate the acceptability of their accents namely Burmese English, Chinese English, Indian English, Japanese English, and Vietnamese English. The participants were eighty undergraduate students at an International University in Thailand…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes
Hansen Edwards, Jette G. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The current study examines how and why speakers of English from multilingual contexts in Asia are identifying as native speakers of English. Eighteen participants from different contexts in Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and The Philippines, who self-identified as native speakers of English participated in hour-long interviews…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lin, Chihkai – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The phonological inventory of Old Okinawan is often reconstructed according to modern Ryukyuan languages. Although the importance of historical resources is never ignored in the study of Okinawan historical linguistics, reconstruction based on historical sources is not well investigated yet, due to the two reasons that a) authors of previous…
Descriptors: Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics
Lin, Han-Yi – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This research investigates the ideological character of the English language in East Asia. It focuses on the prevailing beliefs, values and propositions relating to English as a global language and the spread of English in the non-English East Asian countries, namely China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. By analyzing how English is presented in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, English (Second Language), Language Variation

Chen, Virginia Wei-chieh – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1977
This paper compares the simplified characters of China, Japan and Singapore, based on China's list of 2295 simplified characters. Charts summarize the comparisons by numbers of characters in each country, and a comparative table lists and illustrates simplified characters in these countries. Taiwanese forms are summarized separately. (CHK)
Descriptors: Chinese, Descriptive Linguistics, Ideography, Language Patterns