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The Role of Variety Recognition in Japanese University Students’ Attitudes Towards English Speech Varieties

Robert M. McKenzie The Language Centre, University of Glasgow, ScotlandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 139-153 | Published online: 19 Dec 2008

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Hyejeong Ahn. (2015) Awareness of and attitudes to Asian Englishes: a study of English teachers in South Korea. Asian Englishes 17:2, pages 132-151.
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Robert M. McKenzie. (2015) The sociolinguistics of variety identification and categorisation: free classification of varieties of spoken English amongst non-linguist listeners. Language Awareness 24:2, pages 150-168.
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