Explicit and implicit attitudes of Japanese University students towards variation in L1 and L2 English speech

Robert M. McKenzie

Explicit and implicit attitudes of Japanese University students towards variation in L1 and L2 English speech

Robert M. McKenzie

Humanities Department

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Abstract

This large-scale quantitative study, employing both implicit and explicit attitude measures, investigated 127 Japanese university students’ perceptions of UK, US, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and Indian English speech. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that implicit evaluations of Japanese, UK and US English speech were significantly more positive when compared to the other Asian forms of English under consideration, on both status and social attractiveness dimensions.

When questioned explicitly, informants were generally unfavourable towards ‘International English’. The findings are discussed in relation to the relationship between explicit and implicit language attitudes as well as levels of acceptance amongst Japanese students of particular groups of English speakers and, in turn, speculates upon the potential success of the internationalisation agenda within Japanese Higher Education more broadly.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Japan Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) Conference 2013
Place of Publication	Tokyo
Publisher	The Japanese Society for Language Sciences
Chapter	7
Pages	119-122
Number of pages	4
Volume	2013
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2013
Event	Japanese Society for Language Sciences 15th Annual International Conference - Kwassui Women's University, Nagasaki, Japan Duration: 28 Jun 2013 → 30 Jun 2013 http://www.jslsweb.sakura.ne.jp/jsls2013/wiki.cgi

Conference

Conference	Japanese Society for Language Sciences 15th Annual International Conference
Abbreviated title	JSLS2013
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Nagasaki
Period	28/06/13 → 30/06/13
Internet address	http://www.jslsweb.sakura.ne.jp/jsls2013/wiki.cgi

Keywords

Language attitudes
Sociolinguistics
Social psychology
Social psychology of language
Japan
Asian Englishes
folklinguistics
sociolinguistic variation
sociolinguistic awareness
social categorisation

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McKenzie, RM 2013, Explicit and implicit attitudes of Japanese University students towards variation in L1 and L2 English speech. in Proceedings of the Japan Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) Conference 2013. vol. 2013, The Japanese Society for Language Sciences, Tokyo, pp. 119-122, Japanese Society for Language Sciences 15th Annual International Conference, Nagasaki, Japan, 28/06/13.

Explicit and implicit attitudes of Japanese University students towards variation in L1 and L2 English speech. / McKenzie, Robert M.
Proceedings of the Japan Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) Conference 2013. Vol. 2013 Tokyo: The Japanese Society for Language Sciences, 2013. p. 119-122.

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