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## Abstract Previous studies have identified Japanese negative attitudes towards their English and ambivalent attitudes towards the language (e.g. Jenkins 2007,__English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and identity__. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Matsuda 2003, The ownership of English in Japanese secondary schools.__World Englishes__22(4). 483–496; McKenzie 2010,__The social psychology of English as a global language: Attitudes, awareness and identity in the Japanese context__. Dordrecht: Springer). The current research targets Japanese university students and adds several insights into the nature of these attitudes through the analysis of 95 open-ended questionnaires and 18 conversational interviews. First of all, the participants’ negative language attitudes embraced notable contradictions. Also, their ambivalence was scarcely evident, and more to the point, a matter of degree. Moreover, it is the__doxic__experience (Bourdieu 1977,__Outline of a theory of practice__. Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) within Japanese society that was likely to hinder grounding those attitudes on their own critical thinking and valuing their English communication ability

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Author

Tomokazu Ishikawa

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)