Effect of Mobile-Assisted Dialect Awareness Training on the Dialect Attitudes of Prospective English Language Teachers

Autor/inn/en	Bozoglan, Hilal; Gok, Duygu
Titel	Effect of Mobile-Assisted Dialect Awareness Training on the Dialect Attitudes of Prospective English Language Teachers
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 38 (2017) 9, S.772-787 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2016.1260572
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Metalinguistics; Scores; Nonstandard Dialects; Telecommunications; Program Effectiveness; Preservice Teachers; Student Attitudes; Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Handheld Devices; Control Groups; Positive Attitudes; Pretests Posttests; Comparative Analysis; Computer Software; Language Attitudes; North American English; Language Variation; Arabs; Sociolinguistics; Multivariate Analysis; Undergraduate Students; Teacher Education; Language Teachers; Statistical Analysis; Turkey; Russia; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Telekommunikationstechnik; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachverhalten; Amerikanisches Englisch; Sprachenvielfalt; Arab; Araber; Soziolinguistik; Multivariate Analyse; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Statistische Analyse; Türkei; Russland; Großbritannien
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a mobile-assisted dialect awareness programme on the dialect attitudes of pre-service English language teachers in Turkey. The study adopted a pre-test and a post-test design including 58 first-grade pre-service English language teachers in two different classes. The experimental group received dialect awareness training supported with WhatsApp for 14 weeks, while the control group received no training. Data were collected via a verbal guise test for evaluating the change in the participants' attitudes of Russian, British, Turkish, American and Arabic dialects of English. Dialect awareness training promoted positive attitudes towards all dialects but British, which received the higher scores prior to the treatment in terms of solidarity, power and speech quality. These results suggest that language teacher training in linguistic variation has the potential to empower teachers to appreciate and tolerate non-standardised dialects in addition to long adored standardised dialects. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01