Responses to a questionnaire regarding gender bias in language revealed that members of a local chapter of National Organization for Women and graduate students in psychology were more likely to adopt a new gender-neutral pronoun than were graduate students in English and medicine, and faculty. (Author/BJV)

The issue of language variation is examined from three perspectives: the political view of nonnative varieties as examples of power; the anthropological view of language as an aspect of culture; and the pedagogical view of English as a static entity across cultures. Studies of teacher-training programs and teacher-trainee attitudes are included.…

In accordance with the growing trend in language teaching philosophy towards assessing learner needs before choosing methods and materials, this study concentrates on the attitudes of final year bachelor degree program students towards learning and using English. These 821 students from Thailand, India, and Singapore were majoring in the fields…