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Peer reviewedChiba, Reiko; And Others – World Englishes, 1995
Examined the attitudes of 169 Japanese university students toward varieties of spoken English. Results found that the students with more instrumental motivation were more positive toward nonnative English accents than those with less instrumental motivation, and that the students' familiarity with accents had an influence on their acceptance of…
Descriptors: College Students, Dialects, English, Foreign Countries
