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‘If we say English, that means America’: Japanese students’ perceptions of varieties of English

Betsy E. Evans Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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Terumi Imai Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and East Asian Studies, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, 45501, USA
Pages 315-326 | Received 23 Dec 2010, Accepted 19 May 2011, Published online: 07 Dec 2011

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