Language Attitude

LANGUAGE ATTITUDE“Research on Attitude towards Accent”: 

LANGUAGE ATTITUDE “Research on Attitude towards Accent” Deny A. Kwary www.kwary.net

Attitude towards Accent  Intelligence: 

Attitude towards Accent  Intelligence Giles & Powesland (1975). Speech Style and Social Evaluation. Matched-guised technique: an investigator who could speak either Birmingham accent and RP spoke to two groups of 17-year-olds about psychology, using one accent with one group and the other accent with the other group. Result: The investigator was rated higher in his RP in terms of competence, intelligence, and industrious.

Attitude towards Accent  Politics: 

Giles and Ryan (1982): concluded that a certain accent can change public opinon and show the speaker’s social class. Matched-guised technique: Four groups of people were asked to listen to a recording about capital punishment. The first group listened to the argument in RP; The second group listened to it in South Wales accent; The third in Somerset accent; The fourth in Birmingham accent. Result: The RP speaker is considered to have higher competency the the local accent speaker. However, the respondents tend to agree with arguments of the local accent speaker. Attitude towards Accent  Politics

Attitude towards Accent  English Course Business: 

Birnei (1998) Location: Bavaria Respondents: Business people Result: Most of the respondents prefer studying in an English course which uses British English and that of American English. Gibb (1999) Location: Korea Respondents: Business People and Students Result: Most of the respondents prefer studying in an English course which uses American English and that of British English. Attitude towards Accent  English Course Business

Attitude towards Accent  Achievement in Learning a Foreign Language: 

Lambert (1968): The group of students that have positive attitude towards the Foreign Language get better achievements. Attitude towards Accent  Achievement in Learning a Foreign Language

Attitudes towards Accent  Children’s preference: 

Attitudes towards Accent  Children’s preference Rosenthal (1974): Attitudes of children towards SE and AAVE. Location: Florida Respondents: 136 school children between the ages three to six. The children saw two identical boxes, with a tape-recorder and a present hidden. 73% of the children expected a present from the voice with SE.

Language Attitude Research in Indonesia: 

Language Attitude Research in Indonesia Gunarwan (1983): The language attitude of the students at the University of Indonesia towards Standard and Non-standard Indonesian language. Suhardi (1991): The language attitude of the students and scholars at the University of Indonesia towards Indonesian language, local language and foreign language

Slide8: 

Moeliono (1988) listed six negative attitudes which prevent the standardization of Indonesian language: Underestimating the needs of quality standards. Neglecting the additions of new vocabulary. Appreciating a foreign language. Disobeying the grammar rules. Not giving any attention towards language research and development. Using the sentence pattern of a foreign language.