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Article: Attitudes and identities in learning English and Chinese as a lingua franca: a bilingual learners’ perspective
Title | Attitudes and identities in learning English and Chinese as a lingua franca: a bilingual learners’ perspective |
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Keywords | English English as a lingua franca Hong Kong identity construction Language attitudes Putonghua World Englishes |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01434632.asp |
Citation | Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, 2018, v. 39 n. 9, p. 759-775 How to Cite? |
Abstract | With increasing global demand for English and Chinese language education, the existence of linguistic variation in (and varieties of) both languages has focused scholarly attention on the choice of language standards, norms and models. Using in-depth focus group interviews, this study compared bilingual learners’ choice of English and Putonghua learning targets and examined their language attitudes and identities in relation to these two ‘big’ languages, both of which have played important roles in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong. The findings revealed that the participants held a hierarchical attitude (i.e. native speaker ideology) towards English but not Putonghua, and identified four key factors affecting their choice of language learning targets, namely (1) the language’s status and instrumental value, (2) the perceived attainability of the target, (3) practical communication needs and (4) the learner’s cultural identity. These results shed light on the local and global status of the two languages and subsequently on the identity construction of Hong Kong people. By comparing the attitudinal patterns of learners towards the world’s two ‘big’ languages, this paper argues for the possibility of applying a World Englishes-oriented framework to the study of Chinese, given its increasing global visibility, linguistic variation and extensive use around the world. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/259586 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 1.961 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.033 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, YHJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-03T04:10:19Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-03T04:10:19Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, 2018, v. 39 n. 9, p. 759-775 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0143-4632 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/259586 | - |
dc.description.abstract | With increasing global demand for English and Chinese language education, the existence of linguistic variation in (and varieties of) both languages has focused scholarly attention on the choice of language standards, norms and models. Using in-depth focus group interviews, this study compared bilingual learners’ choice of English and Putonghua learning targets and examined their language attitudes and identities in relation to these two ‘big’ languages, both of which have played important roles in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong. The findings revealed that the participants held a hierarchical attitude (i.e. native speaker ideology) towards English but not Putonghua, and identified four key factors affecting their choice of language learning targets, namely (1) the language’s status and instrumental value, (2) the perceived attainability of the target, (3) practical communication needs and (4) the learner’s cultural identity. These results shed light on the local and global status of the two languages and subsequently on the identity construction of Hong Kong people. By comparing the attitudinal patterns of learners towards the world’s two ‘big’ languages, this paper argues for the possibility of applying a World Englishes-oriented framework to the study of Chinese, given its increasing global visibility, linguistic variation and extensive use around the world. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01434632.asp | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development | - |
dc.rights | Preprint: This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/[Article DOI]. Postprint: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/[Article DOI]. | - |
dc.subject | English | - |
dc.subject | English as a lingua franca | - |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | - |
dc.subject | identity construction | - |
dc.subject | Language attitudes | - |
dc.subject | Putonghua | - |
dc.subject | World Englishes | - |
dc.title | Attitudes and identities in learning English and Chinese as a lingua franca: a bilingual learners’ perspective | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, YHJ: edjimcyh@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chan, YHJ=rp02067 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/01434632.2018.1438446 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85042359205 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 288543 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 39 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 9 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 759 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 775 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000446590200001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0143-4632 | - |