Japanese College Students' Attitudes towards Japan English and American English

Autor/in	Sasayama, Shoko
Titel	Japanese College Students' Attitudes towards Japan English and American English
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 34 (2013) 3, S.264-278 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2013.767341
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Students; Language Attitudes; Questionnaires; Language Tests; Comparative Analysis; English; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Language Variation; Online Surveys; Student Surveys; Likert Scales; Statistical Analysis; Tables (Data); North American English; Language Classification; Measures (Individuals); Multivariate Analysis; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Collegestudent; Sprachverhalten; Fragebogen; Language test; Sprachtest; English language; Englisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachenvielfalt; Schülerbefragung; Likert-Skala; Statistische Analyse; Tabelle; Amerikanisches Englisch; Sprachtypologie; Messdaten; Multivariate Analyse
Abstract	This study investigated contemporary Japanese college students' attitudes towards Japan English (JE) and American English (AE) through a verbal guise test (VGT) as well as a questionnaire. Forty-four Japanese college students listened to four Japanese and four North Americans reading a text in English, rated them in terms of solidarity-related (e.g. kind versus mean) and power-related (e.g. rich versus poor) words and then answered a questionnaire. The results of the guise test revealed that the Japanese respondents evaluated AE more highly than JE for power items, but preferred JE to AE when it came to solidarity items overall. These results suggest that Japanese college students' language attitudes are not monolithic and may change depending on which aspects of their perceptions are investigated. In addition, the results of the questionnaire revealed that, although the respondents personally preferred AE, they also wanted JE to be accepted internationally. These findings, I argue, suggest a growing possibility of the contemporary, younger generation of Japanese college students considering JE as one legitimate variety of English rather than an "incorrect" English. (Contains 6 tables and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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