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Introduction
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are equally acceptable for communication and language education in local
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This study reports the attitude of Swedish people, a group of Westerners,
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A number of previous studies investigated attitude towards non-standard
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on the attitude is still emerging. Our central interest is, therefore, in whether
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Understanding Matters: Swedes’ Attitudes
Towards Malaysian English
Hyeseung Jeong
Juliana Othman
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