Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Education Technology and Management Science (ICETMS 2013)

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

Authors
Huaying Chen, Chuanfeng Cao
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Huaying Chen
Available Online June 2013.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Education Technology and Management Science (ICETMS 2013)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
June 2013
ISBN
10.2991/icetms.2013.19
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icetms.2013.19How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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