This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to
language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain …

This series is based on the idea that there is a need for studies that break barriers. It is
dedicated to innovative studies of language use and language learning in educational …

The linguistic stereotyping hypothesis holds that even brief samples of speech varieties
associated with low-prestige groups can cue negative attributions regarding individual …

This study was designed to determine how ethnicity, the amount of perceived accent or
dialect, and comprehensibility affect a speaker's employability. Sixty human resource …

This paper reports a speaker evaluation experiment that investigated the competition
between three regional accents of Standard Dutch and references to the speaker's …

This paper reports the results of a survey of 101 Japanese university students' perceptions of
different varieties of English using an open-ended questionnaire. Participants indicated their …

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine attitudes towards African–
American vernacular English (AAVE) in a setting outside of the USA. Because foreign …

Language attitude studies focussing specifically on native speaker perceptions of varieties
of English speech have demonstrated consistently that standard varieties tend to be …

Research from populations around the world on attitudes to varieties of English is essential
in order to have a better understanding of how the complexities of globalization play a role in …

ABSTRACT A review of the literature indicates that rating scores may be tied to particular
characteristics of raters who score oral performances. However, previous studies have not …