Publications

Publication details [#55332]

Evans, Betsy and Terumi Imai. 2011. ‘If we say English, that means America’: Japanese students’ perceptions of varieties of English. Language Awareness 20 (4) : 315–326.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | language attitude | language status | language variety | perception1

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study explores Japanese university students’ perceptions of and attitudes towards several English varieties. When assessing English varieties, respondents typically ascribe higher status to UK than to US English. Attitudes are known to exert a powerful impact on language varieties' use and perceptions.