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Weekly, Robert – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
The author reports on a qualitative investigation of the language attitudes of multilingual British South Asian English language teachers. Data are drawn from both interviews and focus groups to demonstrate the participants underlying conception of language and their awareness and attitudes toward Indian English and how they coalesce their…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Asians, Indians
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Clark, Lynn; Schleef, Erik – Language Awareness, 2010
In order to achieve full native-like competence in a second language, speakers must also acquire sociolinguistic awareness in that language. This paper reports the results of a study investigating the acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness among immigrant Polish adolescents learning English in the UK. This paper asks whether Polish-born…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Adolescents, Peer Groups, English (Second Language)
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Shariati, Mohammad – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Presents three major types of language awareness elicited during a pilot study, using data collection instruments, such as interviews and tape recordings of the conversations of two groups of Iranian children living in the United Kingdom. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Metacognition