Language attitudes, identity and L1 maintenance: A qualitative study of Vietnamese ethnic minority students

What is it about?

- Minority students' attitudes towards their L1 (ethnic language), Vietnamese (L2, mainstream language) and English (foreign language). - Language attitudes and minority language maintenance.

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Why is it important?

- We examine minority students' attitudes not only towards their L1 and the mainstream language, but also towards English, the global lingual franca. - We provide a critique of the adequacy of attitudinal factors by pointing to inconsistencies between attitudes and behaviours and indicate that positive attitudes towards minority language alone are not enough for minority language maintenance. - We argue our use of the combination of the four constructs of integrative, instrumental, ideal self and ought-to self as the theoretical framework of the study.