“English as a lingua franca”: Rhetoric or reality? Attitudes of prospective English teachers in post-colonial Hong Kong

Keyphrases

• Hong Kong 100%
• English as a Lingua Franca 100%
• English Teachers 100%
• Postcolonial Hong Kong 100%
• World Englishes 66%
• Teacher Trainees 66%
• China 33%
• Positive Attitude 33%
• Copyright 33%
• English Varieties 33%
• New Variety 33%
• Global Cities 33%
• Sovereignty 33%
• British Colonies 33%
• Global Language 33%
• Group Interviews 33%
• Native English 33%
• Major Subject 33%
• Speech Sample 33%
• Local University 33%
• Communication Media 33%
• Verbal Guise Technique 33%
• Ethnolinguistics 33%
• Linguistic Hierarchies 33%
• Accent Attitudes 33%
• American Model 33%
• British Model 33%

Arts and Humanities

• Hong Kong 100%
• English teachers 100%
• English as a Lingua Franca 100%
• Post-colonial 100%
• Prospective 100%
• Speaker 50%
• World Englishes 50%
• Global 25%
• Local 25%
• varieties of English 25%
• China 25%
• Linguistics 25%
• Accent 25%
• World City 25%
• British colonies 25%
• Technique 25%
• Verbs 25%
• Positive Attitude 25%
• Trainee teachers 25%
• guise 25%
• English Model 25%
• Ethnolinguistics 25%