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English language diversity in Croatian grammar schools: A study on EFL teachers and students' familiarity with and tolerance of English varieties

The authors of the present paper conducted the first investigation into Croatian high school EFL teachers and students’ familiarity with and tolerance of different English varieties, as well as the teachers’ inclination to familiarise their students with them. The findings of the study suggest that teachers are more familiar with native, primarily American and British, than non-native varieties, and familiarise their students accordingly. Students have rarely been exposed to varieties of English (apart from American and British). Regarding English as an international language, 88 per cent of the teachers hold that it should be based on American and/or British English, and do not tolerate the use of morphosyntax which does not conform to native speaker standard language norms, while students are split evenly on the subject.

English varieties, near-nativeness, EFL, EIL/ELF, language attitudes

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