Publications

Publication details [#45918]

Moyer, Alene. 2007. Do Language Attitudes Determine Accent? A Study of Bilinguals in the USA. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28 (6) : 502–518.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | bilingualism | immigrant | L2-acquisition | language attitude

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper offers new data on the ‘foreign’ accent level of immigrant learners of English in the USA as it correlates to positive learner attitudes towards the target language and the target language culture.