Is english our lingua franca or the native speaker's property? The native speaker orientation among middle school students in Japan
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Article Title | Is english our lingua franca or the native speaker's property? The native speaker orientation among middle school students in Japan |
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ERA Journal ID | 210919 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Saito, Akihiro |
Journal Title | Journal Of Language Teaching And Research |
Journal Citation | 3 (6), pp. 1071-1081 |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Year | 2012 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1798-4769 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4304/jltr.3.6.1071-1081 |
Web Address (URL) | http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/jltr/article/view/jltr030610711081 |
Abstract | This paper reports the first empirical study to date that sought to examine the native speaker orientation among middle school EFL students in Japan. To this end, this preliminary study measured their language attitudes in this respect addressing age-stratified and gender variations. The data was elicited from an attitude survey with 318 eighth and ninth graders at a public middle school. The findings suggest that the students gave the highest evaluations to native than to nonnative varieties of English. Second, they opted for learning English for its currency and utility in the English as a native language setting, rather than for its transnational function as a lingua franca. Lastly, the finding indicated a possible developmental trajectory of their native speaker orientation. |
Keywords | language learning; language attitudes; native speaker; Japan; english as a lingua franca |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390108. LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy |
470401. Applied linguistics and educational linguistics | |
470411. Sociolinguistics | |
Public Notes | @ 2006-2012 by Academy Publisher. Open Access Journal - users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of this article. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0yz8/is-english-our-lingua-franca-or-the-native-speaker-s-property-the-native-speaker-orientation-among-middle-school-students-in-japan
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