Investigating attitudes towards English accents from an ELF framework
Keywords:
English as a lingua franca, accent attitudes, language ideology, English language teaching, ChinaAbstract
English has long functioned as a global language. Today, given the growing number of English speakers worldwide, the language no longer belongs solely to its native speakers, but is used among speakers of many first languages as a lingua franca. Against the paradigm of English as a lingua franca (ELF), this research investigates Chinese university students’ attitudes towards their own and other English accents, and to what extent these attitudes are informed and affected by standard language ideology. In the process of data collection, a questionnaire was administered to students at a university in southeast China, and followed by face-to-face interviews. Based on the ELF framework, implications of the research are discussed for English higher education in China.
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