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"If We Say English, that Means America": Japanese Students' Perceptions of Varieties of English
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Evans, Betsy E.; Imai, Terumi – Language Awareness, 2011
This paper reports the results of a survey of 101 Japanese university students' perceptions of different varieties of English using an open-ended questionnaire. Participants indicated their first impressions of varieties of English that they had named. This methodology allows participants themselves to provide the specific varieties as well as the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Student Attitudes, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
The Role of Variety Recognition in Japanese University Students' Attitudes towards English Speech Varieties
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McKenzie, Robert M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
Language attitude studies have tended to assume that informants who listen to and evaluate speech stimuli are able to identify with consistent accuracy the varieties of English in question. However, misidentification could reduce the validity of any results obtained, particularly when it involves the evaluations of non-native English-speaking…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)