VIETNAMESE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS DIFFERENT ENGLISH ACCENTS AND THEIR OWN ENGLISH ACCENT

Lê Thị Trung Đính

doi:10.34238/tnu-jst.13546

VIETNAMESE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS DIFFERENT ENGLISH ACCENTS AND THEIR OWN ENGLISH ACCENT

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Received: 03/09/25 Revised: 30/09/25 Published: 30/09/25

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Le Thi Trung Dinh , Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Abstract

Globalization leads to people around the world having more chances to encounter divergent English varieties with distinct accents in their daily life. A great number of research studies have dug into the ways English speakers react to the English varieties which they are exposed to. Also, whether Vietnamese students, who study English as a foreign language, hold any prejudice against different English accents is questionable. Therefore, this quantitative research aims to investigate Vietnamese students’ attitudes towards five popular English accents, together with their own English accents. The research was conducted with sixty-three participants who were students majoring in English language at a university. The results demonstrate that the participants indeed hold strong prejudice against some particular English accents, and their attitudes towards their own accents are not positive. These findings help sociolinguists have a broad overview about what Vietnamese students think about different English accents in the world, and what should be done to change these negative attitudes.

Keywords

Attitudes; English varieties; Accents; World Englishes; English as a foreign language

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