South Korean University Students' Perceptions of Different English Varieties and Their Contribution to the Learning of English as a Foreign Language

Autor/inn/en	Ahn, So-Yeon; Kang, Hyun-Sook
Titel	South Korean University Students' Perceptions of Different English Varieties and Their Contribution to the Learning of English as a Foreign Language
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 38 (2017) 8, S.712-725 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2016.1242595
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Language Variation; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Student Attitudes; College Students; Role; Language Attitudes; Pronunciation; Auditory Perception; Questionnaires; Familiarity; Proximity; Prediction; Teacher Attitudes; Student Evaluation; Intercultural Communication; Social Mobility; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Official Languages; Rating Scales; Second Language Instruction; Folk Culture; Correlation; Statistical Analysis; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sprachenvielfalt; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Schülerverhalten; Collegestudent; Rollen; Sprachverhalten; Aussprache; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Fragebogen; Lebensnähe; Vorhersage; Lehrerverhalten; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Soziale Mobilität; Office language; Amtssprache; Rating-Skala; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Korrelation; Statistische Analyse; Korea; Republik
Abstract	This study explored South Korean university students' perceptions of different English varieties and their speakers, student attitudes towards the learning of English and its varieties, and the role of these attitudinal variables in the learning of English as a foreign language. One-hundred-one students who were enrolled in four sections of a semester-long English course completed a country-rating task and a perception questionnaire of recorded English speech samples (European-American-, Indian-, Italian-, and Korean-accented English assigned to each section). Student attitudes towards the learning of English and its different varieties were also examined. The results from the country ratings and the speech-perception questionnaire suggest the influence of extra-linguistic factors (familiarity, geographic proximity, and global/local sociopolitics) on student attitudes. Different sets of attitudinal variables predicted the teacher and student assessments of the learning of English. Teacher-assessed learning was predicted by students' desire to communicate with other speakers, regardless of the variety they spoke, as well as their beliefs that communication takes two parties and that English serves as a means for upward mobility. The students' self-assessments, however, were related to their beliefs in their high achievement in English and their views of English as a lingua franca and of non-Standard English as legitimate. (As Provided).
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