A Study of Social Variation in Adult Second Language Aquisition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7900552
AutoresMiriam Eisenstein (0000-0001-6401-2199, New York University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1982
Volumen32
Número2
Páginas367-391
Fecha de publicación1982-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage Learning (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-1770.1982.tb00977.x
OpenAlexW2100931485
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas18

This study focuses on the developing sensitivity of 74 adult English learners to 3 English dialects in their speech community and the extent to which these learners have assimilated community norms regarding dialect speakers. On the basis of a dialect discrimination task, a speaker evaluation task, and a personal interview, the awareness and attitudes of English learners were compared to those of a control group of native English speakers attending the same university. An integration of the results from the three tasks seems to indicate that dialect sensitivity and attitude formation develop in a parallel fashion so that by the advanced level of proficiency, learners have assimilated native dialect attitudes to a surprising extent. Attitudes appear to stem from personal experience which is reinforced by other factors such as the opinions of others and characters presented in the media

Control (management) · Language proficiency · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Speech community · Task (project management) · Variation (astronomy) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology