Matched-Guise Experiment and Its Application to Measure Uyghur Trilinguals’ Language Attitudes

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10.2991/icetms.2013.19How to use a DOI?

Keywords

matched-guise experiment; language attitude; Uyghur; language policy

Abstract

Matched-guise experiment has been proved as a powerful attitudinal research tool. This paper is about the language attitudes that Uyghur university students in Xinjiang have towards Uyghur (their mother tongue), Chinese (their second language), and English (their foreign and third language). The language attitudes of 220 Uyghur undergraduate students from three universities in Urumqi were investigated using the matched-guise experiment. This study finds that although there are statistically significant differences between their attitudes towards Uyghur, Chinese and English, Uyghur university students hold overall favorable and positive attitudes towards all the three languages, and they give Uyghur the highest rating.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Huaying Chen
AU  - Chuanfeng Cao
PY  - 2013/06
DA  - 2013/06
TI  - Matched-Guise Experiment and Its Application to Measure Uyghur Trilinguals’ Language Attitudes
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Education Technology and Management Science (ICETMS 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 67
EP  - 70
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icetms.2013.19
DO  - 10.2991/icetms.2013.19
ID  - Chen2013/06
ER  -