Unit 2-15. TEACHING AND LEARNING EURO-ENGLISH IN SWEDEN
Guidelines for extensive reading of texts on the use of ESP in European transnational education
This is the continuation of Britta Larson Bergstedt’s article “Euro-English accents”. Her study considers whether or not 20 female Swedish high school students correctly identify nine
female European non-native English speakers by their accents. The basic criteria comprrise: the levels of solidarity,competence,prestige, and the relationships between accents, attitudes and stereotypes. Euro-English and attitude studies serve as a background in analysing connection between identity and language. The resulting data revealed that differences were perceived by listeners, and that the amount of contact or language exposure may somewhat negatively affect attitudes, scoring and accent identification.
Text 2-15. EURO-ENGLISH ACCENTS
(Continued from Unit 1-15. After Britta Larson Bergstedt, Lund University, Department of Linguistics)