ATTITUDES OF LEARNERS TOWARD ENGLISH: A CASE OF CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTS

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Along with the global spread of English and the wide recognition of World Englishes, a whole breadth of studies have been conducted to explore the attitudes of learners toward different varieties of English.In China, however, only two pioneering studies have examined this issue.To address this gap, this study investigated the attitudes of Chinese college students toward English.By adopting the notion of World Englishes (WE) and English as an International Language (EIL) as the theoretical framework, this study has explored the attitudes of Chinese college students toward English, different varieties of English, and -China English.The study has also investigated their attitudes toward the current English education policies and practices in China and their purposes for learning English.Furthermore, the attitudes of Chinese college students have been examined in relation to the factors that are likely to explain their attitudes, namely, gender, age, grade in college, major, starting age f

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