Despite Junna's answer, the fact that all of the discussed aspects of Despite Junna's answer, the fact that all of the other respondents discussed aspects of variation that they would like to shows that the instructors generally value instruction Despite Junna's answer, the fact that all of the other respondents discussed aspects of variation that they would like to teach shows that the instructors generally value instruction about variation.
In addition to the original paper survey, I e-mailed the respondents another set of questions (also noted in Appendix 1; the first of these questions was to get specific examples of dialectal, gendered and casual forms, and the few answers gleaned from the responses were included in the above sections, while the other questions are discussed here). Unfortunately, only Hiroko, Rieko and Junna responded to these questions, so the data is not as complete as it should be.
When asked if variation had been presented or emphasized in teacher training, Hiroko and Junna answered that none had been, while Rieko did not answer the question. In a related question as to whether they felt encouraged or discouraged by the in terms of been presented or emphasized in teacher training, Hiroko and Junna answered that none had been, while Rieko did not answer the question. In a related question as to whether they felt encouraged or discouraged by the institution in terms of teaching variation, Hiroko claimed that she felt neither. Junna, on the other hand, had this to say:
No, because and other people who No, because language coordinators and other people who are in the supervisory positions at the lower division here do not even discuss these issues. No one raises this issue (I don't know about the upper level division at UH, though).
