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Publication details [#59042]

Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew. 2014. Accent and identity: exploring the perceptions among bilingual speakers of English as a lingua franca in Hong Kong. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17 (5) : 544–557.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | identity negotiation | lingua franca | motivation | perception2

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Research on the perceptions of a group of bilingual English-Chinese speaking Hong Kong university students regarding accent, identity and English as a lingua franca (ELF), reveals complex individual differences in accent preferences for EFL identity construction.