‘I like the Americans… but i certainly don’t aim for an American accent’: Language attitudes, vitality and foreign language learning in Denmark

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 91-108

  Ladegaard, Hans J ^a   Sachdev, Itesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture and language learning; EFL; Language attitudes; Standard American versus received pronunciation; Vitality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042143133     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434630608668542     Document Type: Article

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