Attitudes of Korean EFL Learners Towards Varieties of English
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The present study attempts to explore the attitudes of Korean EFL learners towards two major varieties of English, American and British. The main purpose of the paper is to compare pre-university and university students as to their preference and familiarity with the two varieties. The study also aims at testing the possible relationship between language attitudes and culture attitudes. To this end, a large amount of data was collected from pre-university and university students using a modified version of the matched- guise technique and a questionnaire based on the discourse analytic approach. The results clearly showed the hegemony of American English in the Korean EFL classroom, indicating that both pre-university and university groups preferred American English predominantly over British English as their target language, and a similar trend was true in terms of familiarity. Learner preference and familiarity were shown to be correlated: Learners more strongly prefer a language variety that they are more familiar with. Language attitudes and culture attitudes were shown to be not always correlated. On the basis of the results, suggestions are made for teaching dialectal variations in the Korean EFL classroom.
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