Publications

Publication details [#55051]

Kobayashi, Yoko. 2011. Expanding-circle students learning ‘standard English’ in the outer-circle Asia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 32 (3) : 235–248.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | language attitude | language dominance | language status | native speaker

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Using Kachru's concept of concentric circles of English, this study examines whether middle-class Japanese students, who preferred to learn English solo at private Singaporean language schools, differ from many others who (wish to) learn inner-circle English.