<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Based on the empirical data of my PhD research, this paper analyses the perceptions of 351 undergraduate students enrolled at English-medium universities towards English in terms of the language ideology framework. The students were purposively sampled from three programs at three Turkish universities. The data were drawn from student opinion surveys and semi-structured interviews. The findings paint a blurry picture, with a strong tendency among most students to view their English use as having the characteristics of dominant native varieties of English (American English &amp; British English), and with a high percentage of students’ acceptance of the distinctiveness of their English without referring to any standard variety. The findings also show that many students’ orientations to English are formed by two dominant language ideologies: standard English ideology and native speaker English ideology. It was also found that a large number of students did not strictly stick to either of these ideologies, particularly in their orientation to spoken English, due, as argued in the main body, to their experiences on language use that have made them aware of the demographics of diverse English users and of the diverse ways of using English. </p></abstract>

Based on the empirical data of my PhD research, this paper analyses the perceptions of 351 undergraduate students enrolled at English-medium universities towards English in terms of the language ideology framework. The students were purposively sampled from three programs at three Turkish universities. The data were drawn from student opinion surveys and semi-structured interviews. The findings paint a blurry picture, with a strong tendency among most students to view their English use as having the characteristics of dominant native varieties of English (American English & British English), and with a high percentage of students’ acceptance of the distinctiveness of their English without referring to any standard variety. The findings also show that many students’ orientations to English are formed by two dominant language ideologies: standard English ideology and native speaker English ideology. It was also found that a large number of students did not strictly stick to either of these ideologies, particularly in their orientation to spoken English, due, as argued in the main body, to their experiences on language use that have made them aware of the demographics of diverse English users and of the diverse ways of using English.

Orientations towards English among English-medium Instruction Students

Englishes in Practice

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Based on the empirical data of my PhD research, this paper analyses the perceptions of 351 undergraduate students enrolled at English-medium universities...

Orientations towards English among English-medium Instruction Students

Published Online: Jan 15, 2015

Page range: 1 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eip-2015-0001

Keywords
English-medium, language policy, language ideologies, standard English

© 2015 Ali Karakaş

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Orientations towards English among English-medium Instruction Students

Published Online: Jan 15, 2015

Page range: 1 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eip-2015-0001

KeywordsEnglish-medium, language policy, language ideologies, standard English

© 2015 Ali Karakaş

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
English-medium, language policy, language ideologies, standard English