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Research on Identification and Attitudes Towards Varieties of English

The present study focuses on students’ attitudes towards different English varieties, while also testing how precise they can be in correctly identifying them. A questionnaire was used to elicit language attitudes from 68 first-year students in the dimensions of prestige, social closeness, and linguistic attractiveness. The findings show that the participants perceive the South English variety as the most prestigious and the most linguistically attractive one, while the Scottish variety was perceived as the most socially close to our participants. The Croatian speaker was the most correctly identified, but he was also one of the most poorly rated in the dimensions of prestige, social closeness, and linguistic attractiveness. The Northern Irish variety was the most misidentified one. The participants would predominantly like to speak with either British accent or American accent, and the South England variety is, they believe, the most suitable for Croatian ELF teachers

accent, dialect, English variety, language identification, language attitude

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