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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Analysis Of Turkish Learners&#039 / Attitudes Towards English Language And English Speaking Societies

Uzum, Baburhan 01 July 2007 (has links) (PDF)
This study aimed at investigating learners&rsquo / attitudes towards English language and English speaking societies. The study also explored the historical and sociopolitical factors that might have influenced learners&rsquo / attitudes. In order to collect data, a language attitude questionnaire was designed adapting several questionnaires which were prepared with the goal of collecting information about learners&rsquo / attitudinal predispositions towards language and language learning in various countries around the world. The study sampled 219 students studying at the preparatory schools of two state and three private universities in Ankara. In addition to the quantitative data obtained from the questionnaire, qualitative data were obtained from the open ended items in the questionnaire and the interview sessions. Interview sessions were conducted at the sampled universities, and 10 students (5 male 5 female) were asked their opinions about their reasons to learn English, their opinions regarding the current status of English in Turkey and their feelings towards English and towards their native language. After the data collection procedure, inferences were made according to the data obtained from the questionnaire and interviews so as to make quantitative and qualitative analysis. While the quantitative findings of the data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics via SPSS 11.0 (Statistical Package of Social Sciences), qualitative data were analyzed through the content analysis. According to the factor analysis of the responses in the pilot and the actual study, the parallel statements were categorized into a factor. Consequently, five factors which ultimately formed five &lsquo / themes&rsquo / were obtained. The research findings were interpreted with reference to these five themes-native language loyalty, instrumental orientation, cultural interest, appreciation of intercultural contact and attitudes towards British and American people respectively. According to the research findings, Turkish learners of English at sampled universities have favorable attitudes towards the English language due to their interest in the cultural products of the English speaking societies and the instrumental value of English as a global language. On the other hand, they have developed ambivalent attitudes towards the target societies due to the intercultural contact with these societies throughout Turkish history, current sociopolitical concerns regarding the British and American state policies and finally their perceptions regarding their native language and culture. Alternative solutions at individual and institutional levels have been proposed in order to change negative attitudes into favorable ones, and prevent the generalization of stereotypes and attitudes into individual levels. In order to achieve the acquisition of favorable attitudes at individual level, intercultural contact should be promoted so that learners will have personal experiences and personal contacts rather than relying on indirect sources such as press and cultural products which might generate biased assumptions.
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A discourse analysis of code-switching practices among Angolan migrants in Cape Town, South Africa

Dinis Fernando da Costa. January 2010 (has links)
<p>In this thesis, I explore the code-switching practices of long-term Angolans migrants in Cape Town when they interact with those who have been here for a much shorter period. In my Honours research essay, I revealed a tendency among those who have lived in Cape Town for some time to code-switch from Portuguese to English even in the presence of more recent migrants from Angola, who have little or no mastery of English. This thesis thus considers the effects of space, discourses of power, language ideologies and attitudes on the patterns of inter- and intra-sentential code-switching by these long-term migrants in interaction with each other as well as with the more recent &ldquo / Angolan arrivals&rdquo / in Cape Town. Twenty Angolan migrants participated in this study. Of these, ten were long-term migrants to South Africa, while a further ten were relative newcomers. While the long-term migrants could claim to be bilingual in Portuguese and English, the newcomers were largely limited to a few English words in their repertoire. However, both groups could speak one or more of the indigenous languages of Angola, like Kimbundu, Umbundu, Kikongo and even Lingala (which is an indigenous language from Republic Democratic of Congo). Some of the long-term migrants had even acquired South African indigenous language such as isiXhosa and Afrikaans. The study made use of qualitative ethnographic methodologies to collect the data. These included recorded conversations, individual and focus group interviews, both general observation and participant observation.</p>
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Identidade social e atitude linguística: um estudo da fala de Bonfim Paulista / Social identities and language attitude: the speech of Bonfim Paulista

Garcia, Bruna Loria [UNESP] 26 April 2018 (has links)
Submitted by Bruna Loria Garcia (brunaloria@gmail.com) on 2018-06-25T22:13:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_final.docx: 16059634 bytes, checksum: 01a8daad9e302b859e46a4e9ebd93f6b (MD5) / Rejected by Priscila Carreira B Vicentini null (priscila@fclar.unesp.br), reason: Bruna Loria Garcia, Solicitamos que realize correções na submissão seguindo as orientações abaixo: 1) o procedimento após a defesa é a submissão da versão final do trabalho EM PDF no Repositório Institucional Unesp 2) ficha catalográfica da dissertação, devendo fazer através do Sistema automático da Biblioteca. Basta acessar http://fclar.unesp.br/#!/biblioteca/servicos/elaboracao-de-fichas-catalograficas/ e preencher os campos exigidos e sua ficha será gerada na hora 3) Obedecer a seguinte ordem nas páginas pré-textuais: capa, folha de rosto, ficha catalográfica, errata (opcional), folha de aprovação, dedicatória (opcional), agradecimentos (opcional), epígrafe (opcional), resumo na língua vernácula, resumo em língua estrangeira, lista de ilustrações (opcional), lista de tabelas (opcional), lista de abreviaturas e siglas (opcional), lista de símbolos (opcional), sumário 4) Renumerar o trabalho, lembrando sempre que as páginas pré textuais devem ser contadas (com exceção da capa e ficha catalográfica), mas a numeração deverá aparecer somente a partir da apresentação/introdução no canto superior direito 5) Para juntar os PDFs - da ficha com o do trabalho, pode se usar o link https://smallpdf.com/pt Em caso de maiores dúvidas, entrar em contato com as bibliotecárias da Seção de Referência, Camila (camila_serrador@fclar.unesp.br) ou Elaine (elaine@fclar.unesp.br). Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2018-06-26T18:06:19Z (GMT) / Submitted by Bruna Loria Garcia (brunaloria@gmail.com) on 2018-06-29T20:27:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_final.pdf: 2843747 bytes, checksum: 215faf8aa4402eb8c0901101eb286f2b (MD5) / Rejected by Aline Aparecida Matias null (alinematias@fclar.unesp.br), reason: Solicitamos que realize correções na submissão seguindo as orientações abaixo: 1) Folha de aprovação: siga o modelo que está no documento disponibilizado pela Biblioteca em: http://fclar.unesp.br/#!/biblioteca/normas-da-abnt/normalizacao/ (Defesa - pré-textuais - não paginado).Atenção: não colocar a expressão que aparece pintada em azul. 2) Numeração incorreta das páginas: as páginas pré-textuais devem ser contadas, com exceção da capa e ficha catalográfica, porém a numeração deverá aparecer somente a partir da Introdução. Esta na verdade é a página 14, e não 11 como está no arquivo. Será preciso renumerar o trabalho e refazer o sumário para que este reflita a numeração do trabalho Em caso de maiores dúvidas, entrar em contato com a bibliotecária da Seção de Referência Elaine (elaine@fclar.unesp.br). Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2018-07-03T11:24:18Z (GMT) / Submitted by Bruna Loria Garcia (brunaloria@gmail.com) on 2018-07-06T15:04:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_final.pdf: 2865487 bytes, checksum: 6fb07831d11485abd5cd0ce2904788d9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Aline Aparecida Matias null (alinematias@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-07-10T12:51:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 garcia_bl_me_arafcl.pdf: 2865487 bytes, checksum: 6fb07831d11485abd5cd0ce2904788d9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-10T12:51:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 garcia_bl_me_arafcl.pdf: 2865487 bytes, checksum: 6fb07831d11485abd5cd0ce2904788d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-26 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Bonfim Paulista, distrito do município de Ribeirão Preto, desde a década de 1990, experimenta a construção de 28 condomínios fechados na comunidade. Antiga referência rural, Bonfim é destaque pela valorização imobiliária e celebrada por sua reputação relacionada à qualidade de vida, tão almejada pelos moradores dos condomínios. Os bonfinenses, acostumados com um ritmo de vida desacelerado, depararam-se com a chegada expressiva de milhares de novos moradores, portadores de status e de um estilo de vida ostentativo, alterando a dinâmica social e quiçá linguística da região. Percebendo a relevância da mudança social ocorrida no distrito, por meio do estudo do objeto linguístico, um fenômeno variável superavaliado – a concordância verbal de terceira pessoa do plural –, foi analisada a contraposição da fala dos dois grupos da comunidade: os moradores do distrito e os dos condomínios. Assim, seguindo os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da Sociolinguística Variacionista (Weinreich, Labov, Herzog 2006 [1968], Labov 2008 [1972],1994,2001,2010), a pesquisa utiliza, como corpus para a análise quantitativa e com o auxílio do programa GoldVarb X, transcrições das falas dos informantes, selecionados a partir de variáveis extralinguísticas. O trabalho teve como objetivo principal analisar as atitudes e avaliações linguísticas, associando as identidades sociais encontradas com os usos linguísticos da concordância verbal de terceira pessoa do plural em dois grupos da comunidade – o que foi realizado através da elaboração, aplicação e análise de um teste de atitude linguística. A hipótese principal do estudo – que expunha que as diferentes identidades e os diferentes valores sociais são fatores que influenciam diretamente nas atitudes, avaliações e usos linguísticos, ainda que os grupos que se identificam de maneira distinta dividam espaço numa mesma localidade – foi comprovada através dos resultados. Demonstrou-se que os moradores de condomínio estão mais associados às normas linguísticas prestigiadas (e com índices mais altos de concordância verbal), ao estilo de vida mais urbano e a um grau maior de escolarização, enquanto que os bonfinenses se associam mais aos valores sociais rurais, ao estilo de vida mais pacato e a um menor grau de escolarização. / Bonfim Paulista, district in the municipality of Ribeirão Preto, experiences a construction of 28 gated condominiums in the community. Old rural reference, Bonfim is highlighted by the real estate appreciation and celebrated for its quality, with the quality of life, so desired by the residents of the condominiums. Bonfinenses, accustomed to a decelerated pace of life, were faced with an expressive entry of thousands of new residents, status holders and a ostentatious lifestyle, changing the social and linguistic dynamics of the region. As a result of the emergence of an overvalued variable - a verbal agreement of a third person of the plural - in the social collectivity of the district, through the linguistic method, the speech of the two community groups was analyzed: the residents of the district and the of condominiums. Thus, the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (Weinreich, Labov, Herzog 2006 [1968], Labov 2008 [1972], 1994, 2001, 201010), a research used, as a corpus for a quantitative analysis and with the aid of GoldVarb X program, transcending the informants' statements, selected from extralinguistic variables. The main analysis of the work was as language attitudes and assessments, associating social identities with the linguistic uses of verbal third-person plural agreement in two groups of community - which was accomplished through the elaboration, application and analysis of an attitude test linguistics. The main idea of the study - which exposed the different identities and different social values are those that influence attitudes, assessments and linguistic uses, although groups that identify the way it distinguishes the space of a language results. The main indicators of schooling are associated with the prestigious linguistic norms (with higher rates of verbal agreement), the more urban lifestyle and higher schooling, while the Bonfinenses are more associated with rural social values and a lower level of schooling. / CNPq 134125/2017-7.
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A discourse analysis of code-switching practices among Angolan migrants in Cape Town, South Africa

Da Costa, Dinis Fernando January 2010 (has links)
Magister Artium - MA / In this thesis, I explore the code-switching practices of long-term Angolans migrants in Cape Town when they interact with those who have been here for a much shorter period. In my Honours research essay, I revealed a tendency among those who have lived in Cape Town for some time to code-switch from Portuguese to English even in the presence of more recent migrants from Angola, who have little or no mastery of English. This thesis thus considers the effects of space, discourses of power, language ideologies and attitudes on the patterns of inter- and intra-sentential code-switching by these long-term migrants in interaction with each other as well as with the more recent “Angolan arrivals” in Cape Town. Twenty Angolan migrants participated in this study. Of these, ten were long-term migrants to South Africa, while a further ten were relative newcomers. While the long-term migrants could claim to be bilingual in Portuguese and English, the newcomers were largely limited to a few English words in their repertoire. However, both groups could speak one or more of the indigenous languages of Angola, like Kimbundu, Umbundu, Kikongo and even Lingala (which is an indigenous language from Republic Democratic of Congo). Some of the long-term migrants had even acquired South African indigenous language such as isiXhosa and Afrikaans. The study made use of qualitative ethnographic methodologies to collect the data. These included recorded conversations, individual and focus group interviews, both general observation and participant observation. / South Africa
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The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts

Huang, Yao-Feng 20 May 2013 (has links)
No description available.
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L2 Spanish Speakers' Attitudes Toward Selected Features of Peninsular and Mexican Spanish

Stotts, Grant Perry 29 May 2014 (has links) (PDF)
Many studies have been done on language attitudes, including attitudes toward languages in contact, various dialects of a language, nonnative speech, and attitudes of second-language (L2) learners toward the language that they are learning. Typically the studies of second-language learning deal with the attitudes toward the language in general rather than toward specific varieties within the language. The present study measures the attitudes of L2 learners of Spanish who lived in Spain, Mexico and Argentina toward native speakers from Spain and Mexico. The nonnative speakers listened to recordings of four native speakers, a male and a female from Spain, and a male and a female from Mexico, and rated each on a series of characteristics such as intelligence, education, attractiveness, work ethic, and honesty. T-tests were run to determine whether or not the time spent in one of the countries affected the attitudes toward each variety of Spanish. The results show that the judges had a tendency to give higher ratings to the speakers that they could understand the easiest. In addition, there was an overall tendency to rate both of the speakers from Spain higher, as was found in studies by Álvarez, Martínez and Urdaneta (2001), as well as Montes-Alcalá (2011), and to rate the females higher, supporting what both González Martínez (2008) and Labov (1972) found.
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The Effect of Content and Standardness on Listeners' Affectual Perception of Different English Accents: A Language Attitude Study at McMaster University

Misuk, Jay January 2016 (has links)
When people are listening to others they are not just interpreting the speech in order to understand and participate in a communicative act. While interpreting the linguistic information, listeners are attentive to extralinguistic information about the speaker about which they make assumptions based on the accent and content that they hear. Many researchers have studied language attitude to see how different accents compare to each other for different speakers and listeners. Although this research has been done for many different accents, none have been done comparing standard and non-standard accents of Canadian English, or that account for the native accent of the listener. A number of university students from South-Western Ontario were surveyed to elicit general language attitude scores on a series of 11 measures for 8 different voice clips differing in terms of standardness (Standard vs. Non-Standard), content (Academic vs. Colloquial), and accent (British vs. Canadian). A comparison of the mean scores on the accents revealed a general preference for British and standard accents, and a general dislike of Canadian and non-standard accents. A Principal Component Analysis identified a difference in response pattern between native Canadian English and non-native Canadian English speakers. When combined with general qualitative descriptions of the voice clips offered by participants it appears that language attitude is greatly influenced by perception of prestige and familiarity with the accent. Listeners prefer readily identifiable accents that are held in esteem by the greater speech community, while they dislike accents which are less clearly intelligible and lack prestige. Listeners were also more critical of accents with which they were more familiar. Such findings are important because they can help us to identify potential sources of unequal access to opportunity in society as influenced by how people speak. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc) / Whenever we listen to other people speak we are not just taking in information and trying to understand what they are saying. People will tend to pass judgement on other speakers for a number of reasons, including what they are saying, and how they are saying it. Many studies have studied this phenomenon, known as language attitude by linguists, to see how different accents compare to each other for different speakers and listeners. Although this research has been done for many different accents, none have been done comparing standard and non-standard accents of Canadian English. This research project involved surveying a number of Canadian university students to find out which Canadian and British accents they liked and disliked, and in what ways. I found that Canadians tend to prefer Standard Academic British English over less-educated sounding Canadian accents. Since there was a difference in preference between Canadian English speakers and non-Canadian English speakers, it appears that familiarity might allow people to be more critical of the accents or dialects they are hearing. These findings are important because they can help us to find possible sources of unequal opportunity in society as influenced by how people speak.
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Upper Secondary Students' Assessment of Four Women Speaking Four Different Varieties of English

Sahlström, Camilla January 2006 (has links)
Society exhibits a wide variety of different languages with various prominent features. At the same time as we honour diversity, however our civilisation is coloured with prejudice and preconceptions. Even if there is a rather liberal view on language use today, dialects and accents still carry positive and negative connotations for a majority of citizens. Research shows, that we are prejudiced and that we have predetermined ideas when it comes to certain language varieties. In this study, I take up four varieties of Standard English: American, English, Australian and Scottish. I focus on the associations Swedish students make when it comes to these four language varieties and how this transforms into attitudes towards the speakers. A language attitude study is carried out by using a modified Matched Guise Test. I explain the difference between dialect and accent, as well as societal attitudes to language varieties and present some prominent linguists and their methods. Finally, I draw some conclusions by comparing my results to previous findings.
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Engelska för nyanlända somalisk- och arabisktalande elever : Hur upplever somalisk- och arabisktalande flyktingelever inlärningen av engelska på en högstadieskola i Sverige? En kvalitativ studie med fokus på underkända elever / A qualitative study of Somali- and Arabic-speaking refugee students’ attitudes towards learning English in Sweden, focusing on students with low grades in the subject

Edlund, Rebekka January 2021 (has links)
Swedish schools start teaching English in second grade. Also, many children in Sweden practicea lot of English in their spare time, for example by watching films, or by playing computergames. During the last few years, Sweden has accepted many refugees from countries whereEnglish doesn’t play such a dominant role. By talking to refugee high-school students and theirparents, and asking them about their attitudes towards English as a language and as a subjecttaught in school, this study aims to make it easier for English teachers in Sweden to understandthe perspective of foreign-born students. The study is based on interviews and surveys withSomali- and Arabic-speaking students and parents, conducted in collaboration with Somali- andArabic-speaking translators. This group of students has a completely different starting point thanSwedish students, since they start learning English as a foreign language at the same time as theystart learning Swedish, and have a home language that is from a different language group. Themethod of research used has been focus group interviews with students, individual, structuredinterviews with parents, as well as surveys with students. Results show that students and parentswho participated think it’s important to learn English, that they don’t think it’s a particularlydifficult language, but that they need more time to practice, in school, and in their spare time. / <p>Engelska</p>
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The interface between language attitudes and language use in a post-conflict context: the case of Rwanda

Mbori, Bob John Obwang'i 31 March 2008 (has links)
The study investigates the interface between the variables - language attitude and language use in a development context, and attempts to determine the contribution of language to Rwanda's post-conflict development, reconstruction and reconciliation. It examines the language attitudes and language use patterns of 53 students from Rwanda's public universities focusing on how students, who are all Rwandan citizens, view the role of Kinyarwanda, French, English and Kiswahili languages in twelve core areas of post-conflict development. Although post-conflict development is socio-economic, previous historical and political factors affecting Rwanda's violent past play a role as new forms of linguistic categorization - Anglophone and Francophone - emerge which may be used to camouflage previous ethnic categorizations that have had disastrous effects in Rwanda. Further, social categorizations laden with salient features of linguistic identity may influence the implementation of the post-conflict development programmes, and also affect the pace and pattern of reconciliation in Rwanda. Conclusions are based on eclectic sources: quantitative, qualitative, historical and participatory, with patterns of analysis established from secondary and historical data. The study is also grounded in the Communication Accommodation Theory that rests on issues of divergence and convergence during interaction where emerging language identities dovetail with language attitudes and language use, resulting in an interface that influences the implementation of Rwanda's post-conflict development programmes. Additionally, it is argued that the African languages such as Kinyarwanda and Kiswahili, should be considered as vehicles for Rwanda's post-conflict development, although Kinyarwanda, the home language, has in the past really not served an intranational unifying function. On the other hand, Kiswahili, unlike Kinyarwanda, has no divisive myths and identities that would inhibit post-conflict development; it is an important language in the East and Central African region where post-conflict Rwanda will play a positive and active role, and would be a language to be positively developed. / African Languages / D.Litt et Phil. (African Languages)

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