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Vietnamese University Students in the UK and Their Use of English Names
Pham, Thu Tra ; Sherman, Tamah (advisor) ; Luef, Eva Maria (referee)
and keywords The aim of this thesis is to investigate the management of personal names of Vietnamese students living and/or studying in the United Kingdom. It explores reasons for adopting English names, situations for different name usage, and motivations behind name choices. The data were obtained both quantitatively through a questionnaire and qualitatively through one-on-one interviews. The results confirm that management of personal names heavily depends on the individual. However, certain patterns can be observed. The study's findings demonstrate that participants use strategies for selecting an English name that align with those proposed in previous works by Burt (2009), Chen (2015), and McPherron (2009). Additionally, the research corroborates the role of convenience as a significant factor influencing individuals to adopt an English name as proposed by previous research. However, the study also identifies deviations from existing literature. Notably, the trendiness of having an English name appears to hold less importance for the participants, differing from the findings of Barešová & Pikhart (2020). Furthermore, contrary to the perspectives of Chen (2015) and Heffernan (2010), the research indicates that adopting an English name for use in English classes does not significantly impact the...
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Speech melody characteristics in Vietnamese English
Pham, Thu Tra ; Volín, Jan (advisor) ; Lewis, Suzanne (referee)
and key words The aim of this thesis is to describe the speech melody characteristics in Vietnamese English. Long-term distributional measures of fundamental frequency (F0) tracks for pitch level and pitch span were analyzed to determine whether Vietnamese English speakers exhibit narrower pitch range, one of the intonation errors made by language learners proposed in previous research. Another hypothesis was based on the idiosyncratic nature of intonation, and suggests that speakers show idiosyncrasies in their intonation. The data were obtained by extracting F0 tracks from recordings of eight Vietnamese English speakers. The results confirm that Vietnamese English speakers demonstrate narrower pitch range than British speakers. It also confirms the idiosyncratic nature of intonation in Vietnamese English speakers. Keywords: fundamental frequency, speech melody, foreign accent, prosodic phrase, nuclear pitch accent
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