Attitudes and driving factors behind the attitudes of Malaysian university students towards English and American English

• Main Authors: Wan Shamsuddin, Wan Noor Farah, Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah, Tan, Helen, Bolong, Jusang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Global Academic Excellence 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80770/1/LANG.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80770/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331915209_ATTITUDES_AND_DRIVING_FACTORS_BEHIND_THE_ATTITUDES_OF_MALAYSIAN_UNIVERSITY_STUDENTS_TOWARDS_BRITISH_ENGLISH_AND_AMERICAN_ENGLISH

This article explores the attitudes of 340 Malaysian students in a public university in Klang Valley towards two main English varieties in Malaysia: i) British English and ii) American English. Data were acquired by employing the Verbal Guise Technique (VGT) to determine the participants’ covert att...