表題番号:2022C-552 日付:2023/04/07
研究課題How do young Japanese evaluate foreign accented English's?
研究者所属(当時) 資格 氏名
(代表者) 高等学院 教諭 大澤 廉
研究成果概要

My purpose of this study in 2022 is to review macro-socio studies regarding World Englishes, and set up a language attitudinal study. The macro-socio studies will be high lightened to elaborate ideological and political issues that English language has burdened. It includes, for example, ‘English and inequalities’, which I discuss, focusing on English ideology in secondary education in Japan.

As for the language attitudinal study, though a language attitude study has a rich history, there are few language attitudinal studies about how non-native speakers (NNSs) evaluate other non-native accented Englishes. Researchers have pointed out that NNSs regard NNSs of English as ‘inferior’. 

My study is an empirical one to investigate how Japanese high schoolers evaluate non-native Englishes vi-a-vis their own Japanese accented English. With reviewing previous language attitudinal studies regarding accented Englishes, I have set up the methodology to gather the data. 

Because my previous study in 2019 suggests some positive response toward non-native accented Englishes, it is expected that high school students in Tokyo area may react in such way. I will investigate the question using statical technique.