Date:
November 1980
Page No.:
63
Writer(s):
Nancy Hildebrandt, Howard Giles
This paper attempts to extend theories
from the social psychology of language
to the case of a monolingual community
speaking English as a foreign language.
Two theoretical frameworks are presented
and then integrated: Giles's theory of
speech accommodation, which attempts to
account for the conditions under which
speech convergence and divergence occur,
and Gardner's model of second language
acquisition, which illustrates the strong
effect of the social milieu and type of
motivation on second language learning.
Implications for English language education
and planning in Japan are discussed.
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