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[[Questionnaires]] are often used to assess attitudes.

===Commitment Measures===
At the medial level, where we’re concerned with assessing attitude, Agheyisi and Fishman (1970) suggest using commitment measures to do this. Commitment measures are questions designed to evaluate how willing a person is to do something. For example, asking whether the interviewee would let their daughter marry a man from another language group would reveal attitudes towards speakers of that language. They say that these "are more useful than traditional attitude questionnaires for measures which are designed to be validated against overt behaviour, because they directly tap respondents’ behaviour tendency rather than their cognitive or evaluative responses." (p.145)

==Bibliography==
Agheyisi, Rebecca, and Joshua A. Fishman. “Language Attitude Studies: A brief survey of methodological approaches.” Anthropological Linguistics 12:5, 1970: 137-157.

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 Shuy, Roger W. and Ralph W. Fasold eds. 1973. Language Attitudes: Current Trends and Prospects. Georgetown University Press: Washington D.C.

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	* '''Choosing a Code''' - chapter 4 from Ronald Wardhaugh's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JELvevZ1q5UC An Introduction to Sociolinguistics]''.		* '''Choosing a Code''' - chapter 4 from Ronald Wardhaugh's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JELvevZ1q5UC An Introduction to Sociolinguistics]''.
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	* '''Attitudes and Language: Foundational Issues''' - chapter 1 from Colin Baker's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uC24FqNcfXYC Attitudes & Language]''.		* '''Attitudes and Language: Foundational Issues''' - chapter 1 from Colin Baker's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uC24FqNcfXYC Attitudes & Language]''.
	* '''Choosing a Code''' - chapter 4 from Ronald Wardhaugh's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JELvevZ1q5UC An Introduction to Sociolinguistics]''.		* '''Choosing a Code''' - chapter 4 from Ronald Wardhaugh's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JELvevZ1q5UC An Introduction to Sociolinguistics]''.
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 * [[Observation]]
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 =Background Reading=

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 Some of the following are useful readings to help you gain a deeper understanding of the importance of language attitudes in assessment.
 ==On this wiki==
-* A paper by Lynn Landweer from 1988. (need to add this as had issues with upload - Admin)
+* A [[Media:Landweer_-_Language_Attitudes.pdf|paper by Lynn Landweer]] from 1988.
 ==On Google Books==
 * '''Attitudes and Language: Foundational Issues''' - chapter 1 from Colin Baker's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uC24FqNcfXYC Attitudes & Language]''.
 * '''Choosing a Code''' - chapter 4 from Ronald Wardhaugh's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JELvevZ1q5UC An Introduction to Sociolinguistics]''.

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		+	=Background Reading=
		+	Some of the following are useful readings to help you gain a deeper understanding of the importance of language attitudes in assessment.
		+	==On this wiki==
		+	* A paper by Lynn Landweer from 1988. (need to add this as had issues with upload - Admin)
		+
		+	==On Google Books==
		+	* '''Attitudes and Language: Foundational Issues''' - chapter 1 from Colin Baker's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uC24FqNcfXYC Attitudes & Language]''.
		+	* '''Choosing a Code''' - chapter 4 from Ronald Wardhaugh's book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JELvevZ1q5UC An Introduction to Sociolinguistics]''.

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-[[Questionnaires]] are often used to assess attitudes.
+The following can be used to assess attitudes:
+* [[Questionnaires]]
-===Commitment Measures===
+* [[Interviews]]
-At the medial level, where we’re concerned with assessing attitude, Agheyisi and Fishman (1970) suggest using commitment measures to do this. Commitment measures are questions designed to evaluate how willing a person is to do something. For example, asking whether the interviewee would let their daughter marry a man from another language group would reveal attitudes towards speakers of that language.  They say that these "are more useful than traditional attitude questionnaires for measures which are designed to be validated against overt behaviour, because they directly tap respondents’ behaviour tendency rather than their cognitive or evaluative responses." (p.145)
+* [[Matched-Guise]]
+* [[Observation]]
-==Bibliography==
+* [[Commitment Measures]]