Philipp Meer
I am a postdoctoral researcher in English linguistics at the University of Münster. My research focuses on World Englishes, sociolingusitics & sociophonetics, acoustic phonetics, language attitudes, corpus linguistics, and applied linguistics. Please find more information on my website: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Staff/Meer.shtml
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learners of English in German secondary schools frequently hold negative attitudes towards certain varieties of English. The authors of the two studies discuss the potential role of cultural learning in English language classrooms in Germany in addressing and, ultimately, mitigating these negative attitudes. From a cosmopolitan perspective, this contribution argues that it is worthwhile taking a step back, revisiting current practices of cultural learning, and reflecting on their role in creating, upholding, and perpetuating stereotypical attitudes and perceptions in the first place. In this light, this contribution focuses on the current practice of target country teaching in conjunction with issues surrounding indexicality as well as language ownership to illustrate how cosmopolitan cultural learning may contribute alternative ways of thinking to the GELT paradigm.
that elicited students’ attitudes toward different standard varieties of
English. The studies were conducted in the small anglophone Caribbean
island country of Grenada. The two studies were contextualized in the
domains of education and newscasting, respectively, with the aim of finding
out how language attitudes are influenced by context in societies where
different endo- and exonormative standards are of relevance. As
hypothesized, the results revealed strong differences between the
evaluations of speakers of the two domains and confirm that
contextualization is crucial in language attitude research. Against previous
hypotheses, however, the acceptance of endonormative standard accents
was stronger in the more globally open context of newscasting than in the
more locally restricted domain of education. The results are discussed
against the background of the sociolinguistic situation in Grenada and
inform on endonormativity and norm orientation in one of the
underresearched island countries of the anglophone Caribbean.
learners of English in German secondary schools frequently hold negative attitudes towards certain varieties of English. The authors of the two studies discuss the potential role of cultural learning in English language classrooms in Germany in addressing and, ultimately, mitigating these negative attitudes. From a cosmopolitan perspective, this contribution argues that it is worthwhile taking a step back, revisiting current practices of cultural learning, and reflecting on their role in creating, upholding, and perpetuating stereotypical attitudes and perceptions in the first place. In this light, this contribution focuses on the current practice of target country teaching in conjunction with issues surrounding indexicality as well as language ownership to illustrate how cosmopolitan cultural learning may contribute alternative ways of thinking to the GELT paradigm.
that elicited students’ attitudes toward different standard varieties of
English. The studies were conducted in the small anglophone Caribbean
island country of Grenada. The two studies were contextualized in the
domains of education and newscasting, respectively, with the aim of finding
out how language attitudes are influenced by context in societies where
different endo- and exonormative standards are of relevance. As
hypothesized, the results revealed strong differences between the
evaluations of speakers of the two domains and confirm that
contextualization is crucial in language attitude research. Against previous
hypotheses, however, the acceptance of endonormative standard accents
was stronger in the more globally open context of newscasting than in the
more locally restricted domain of education. The results are discussed
against the background of the sociolinguistic situation in Grenada and
inform on endonormativity and norm orientation in one of the
underresearched island countries of the anglophone Caribbean.