Attitudes towards English Language Norms in the Expanding Circle: Development and Validation of a new Model and Questionnaire

سال انتشار: 1394
محل انتشار: فصلنامه آموزش مهارتهای زبان، دوره: 34، شماره: 1
کد COI اختصاصی: JR_JTLS-34-1_003
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 294

نویسندگان

Department of English Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba’I University, Tehran, Iran

چکیده

This paper describes the development and validation of a new model and questionnaire to measure Iranian English as a foreign language learners’ attitudes towards the use of native versus non-native English language norms. Based on a comprehensive review of the related literature and interviews with domain experts, five factors were identified. A draft version of a questionnaire based on those five factors containing ۴۰ items for assessing learners’ attitudes towards norms was designed. The draft version was piloted with a group of ۲۷۳ Iranian learners and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the obtained data indicated that five factors could be extracted. Then the fitness of the model was checked through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) through the administration of the questionnaire to another group of ۵۵۴ Iranian English language learners. The result of CFA revealed that the model enjoyed a satisfactory level of fitness indices, meaning that the five-factor structure including linguistic instrumentalism, communicativity, ethnorelativity, language maintenance, and linguistic prestige was not due to random variance.

کلیدواژه ها

English language norms, native versus non-native norms, English as a foreign language, attitude measurement, questionnaire development

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