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‘I would like to sound like Heidi Klum’: What do non-native speakers say about who they want to sound like?

An investigation into the place of native and non-native speakers as role models for learners' acquisition of English pronunciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2013

Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
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English nowadays plays an important role in the political, diplomatic, commercial, economic and cultural activities on the global stage (see, e.g., Graddol, 1997, 2006; Jenkins, 2000; Warschauer, 2000; Crystal, 2003). As a result of the widespread use of English around the globe, several scholars contend that English no longer exclusively represents the culture of native English-speaking countries, nor are they the exclusive ‘owners’ of English (see e.g. Widdowson, 1994).

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English Today , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 17 - 21
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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