The Social Psychology of English as a Global Language: Attitudes, Awareness and Identity in the Japanese Context
The Social Psychology of English as a Global Language: Attitudes, Awareness and Identity in the Japanese Context
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英语作为全球语言的社会心理学：日本背景下的态度、意识和认同
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2010
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R. McKenzie
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R. McKenzie
这一开创性的工作是一个创新的和深入的研究超过500名日本学习者对一些标准和非标准以及母语和非母语的英语语音的态度的详细说明。本研究采用了一系列开创性的态度测量技术，对学习者态度的调查进行了改进。这些方法在很大程度上是从社会心理学和第二语言习得领域存在的强大传统，并利用直接和间接的态度测量技术。作者将这些发现置于大量关于母语者对语言和语言变体的评价的文献背景下。这项研究的独特之处在于，研究结果提供了明确的证据，证明了英语语言中社会和地理多样性的受访者的态度变化和高水平的语言意识。这些研究结果进行了详细的分析，在有关英语的全球传播，以及在选择的语言模型在日本国内和国外的英语课堂的教学意义。研究的问题是特别感兴趣的教育工作者，研究人员和学生在应用语言学，TESOL，第二语言习得，语言的社会心理学和社会语言学领域。所获得的研究结果的教学和语言政策的影响，使必不可少的阅读的英语语言和英语语言教学的作用，在日本和超越特定的重点。
This ground-breaking work is a detailed account of an innovative and in-depth study of the attitudes of in excess of 500 Japanese learners towards a number of standard and non-standard as well as native and non-native varieties of English speech. The research conducted refines the investigation of learner attitudes by employing a range of pioneering techniques of attitude measurement. These methods are largely incorporated from the strong traditions that exist in the fields of social psychology and second language acquisition and utilize both direct and indirect techniques of attitude measurement. The author locates the findings in the context of the wealth of literature on native speaker evaluations of languages and language varieties. The study is unique in that the results provide clear evidence of both attitude change and high levels of linguistic awareness among the informants of social and geographical diversity within the English language. These findings are analyzed in detail in relation to the global spread of English as well as in terms of the pedagogical implications for the choice of linguistic model employed in English language classrooms both inside and outside Japan. The issues examined are of particular interest to educators, researchers and students in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, second language acquisition, social psychology of language and sociolinguistics. The pedagogical and language policy implications of the findings obtained make essential reading for those with a specific focus on the role of the English language and English language teaching, both in Japan and beyond.