Rearrange thefollowingsentences (A-H) from a resea
Rearrange thefollowingsentences (A-H) from a researchpaper in the order that you think the author originally wrote them.1)_____ 2)_____ 3)_____ 4)_____ 5)_____ 6)_____ 7)_____ 8)_____
A.Two empirical studies were conducted and participants were 101 Chinese university students who majored in English.
B.However, their English demonstrated more features of Received Pronunciation accent.
C.This paper reports on an investigation into the relationship between language vitality, language attitude and language behavior.
D.The results showed that the Chinese university students had stronger preference to and identity with American English.
E.The first study used the verbal-guise technique to examine the participants’ attitude toward American and British English and their identity with these two English varieties.
F.The second study looked into the features of the participants’ actual English accents by an English accent reading test.
G.These findings suggest that language vitality can indeed influence second language learners’ language attitude, but language attitude may not necessarily shape their language behavior.
H.They rated American English much higher in the dimensions of power/status, solidarity, and language expressive competence, and preferred American accent as their model of pronunciation.