Abstract
The purposes of the study were to investigate the participants’ language attitudes toward Global Englishes among 330 undergraduate students from the two different faculties at a university in the eastern part of Thailand. It also compared statistically different students’ attitudes toward Global Englishes between males and females, students’ different majors, students’ different IE (International Experience), and different students’ parents’ English ability. A questionnaire was used to collect the data, consisting of two sections: 1). Student’s demographic data; 2). Attitudes of Undergraduate Students toward Global Englishes. The second section was divided into three components: affective, behavioral, and cognitive. The findings revealed that the Thai undergraduate students held medium attitudes toward Global Englishes and they had an inclination to keep open minds about accepting, speaking and using English or varieties of English; they did not have different attitudes toward Global Englishes between males and females. Also the results indicated that the participants from different majors not only had different beliefs and thoughts about Global Englishes , but they also had different inclination to speak and use English or varieties of English. Moreover, the results revealed that the participants whose general knowledge about English or varieties of English had been affected by their international experience more or less; and the participants whose emotional or feeling segment of language attitudes was related to their parents’ English ability. Keywords: language attitudes, Global Englishes, undergraduate students DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-33-04 Publication date: November 30 th 2020
Highlights
With the British colonial in the world, the British as “advanced” by learning their language to follow and tried to assimilate into this “advanced” culture, so some people say that English is the international cultural imperialism (Crystal, 2003)
6.Discussion This section provided a discussion of the research findings in the present study which was focused on investigating language attitudes toward Global Englishes among Thai undergraduate students from the two different faculties
The following discussion was based on the analysis in the previous studies
Summary
With the British colonial in the world, the British as “advanced” by learning their language to follow and tried to assimilate into this “advanced” culture, so some people say that English is the international cultural imperialism (Crystal, 2003). Under the influences of former British Empire and the political or economic power of the USA after the World War II, English nowadays is used in a lot of areas around the world. The language of the ruler, English, was the chosen one for communication between different colonies within the Empire. After World War II, the USA successfully grabbed the opportunity to become the super power of the world, so did the American English, while the European and Asian countries worked hard to recover from the war. English now is the official language for more than eighty countries and becoming the most favorite language in international communication (Phillipson, 2007)
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