This paper explores whether an individual’s news source can explain their attitudes on immigration. We focus on the Spanish-speaking population in the U.S., since they have the option of accessing their news in English, Spanish or in both languages. Our audience influence hypothesis predicts that Spanish-language news will cover immigration in a more positive and informative manner than will En...

This study has two objectives, namely to describe the language attitudes of SMAN 9 Bandar Lampung students towards French and explain factors influencing their attitudes. used a quantitative descriptive method. Questionnaires interviews were for data collection. Meanwhile, Likert scale analysis was analyze statistical tools also determine value overall attitude component. The results this indic...

This paper presents the building and a first evaluation of a tones balanced Audio-Visual corpus of social affect in Vietnamese language. This under-resourced tonal language has specific glottalization and co-articulation phenomena, for which interactions with attitudes prosody are a very interesting issue. A well-controlled recording methodology was designed to build a large representative audi...

Abstract The role of EFL lecturers’ first language (L1) in the EFL courses has been an ongoing debate. A monolingual approach to EFL suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (FL) classroom improves learning of the target language. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of Iranian lecturers and EFL learners towards using L1 as...

The aim of this work is to analyse the challenges that language editors face when editing texts and investigate linguistic attitudes motivation editors. paper analyses 10 qualitative in-depth semi-structured interviews with average length each interview 45 minutes. research material consists a total 7 hours audio recordings interviews, transcribed make up 100 pages text. edited by participants ...

Purpose Academic education in speech-language pathology should prepare students to provide professional services that mirror current knowledge, skills, and scope of practice in a pluralistic society. This study seeks to examine the impact of speech-language pathology (SLP) students prior multicultural experiences and previous formal education on attitudes and beliefs toward language diversity. ...