Attitudes toward Accents in Less Commonly Taught Language Education: A Korean Case in Canada
This paper reports on a study of the attitudes toward accents in a university-level Korean language program in Canada. The study investigated how learners’ attitudes toward foreign accents relate to learners’ ethnic and linguistic backgrounds as well as subject matters. After brainstorming desir...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
2018-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncolctl.org/files/Jncolctl-vol-23/Attitudes%20toward%20Accents%20in%20LCTL%20Education.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper reports on a study of the attitudes toward accents in a
university-level Korean language program in Canada. The study
investigated how learners’ attitudes toward foreign accents relate to learners’ ethnic and linguistic backgrounds as well as subject matters. After brainstorming desirable characteristics of language instructors and classmates, the participants responded to a matched-guise questionnaire and open-ended questions. Learners evaluated negatively non-native speakers of English and Korean. Ethic Korean learners judged accented Korean more negatively than did learners without a Korean ethnic background, while learners with English as first language judged accented English more positively than did learners with non-English as their first language. The majority of learners favored native speakers of the target language with accented English as their language instructors, while favoring native speakers of English as their content course instructors. This paper concludes with implications for language education. |
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| ISSN: | 1930-9031 1930-9031 |