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Akiko Fuse; Krysteena Alloggio; Seung-Yun Yang – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of the listener's education and occupation on intelligibility, comprehensibility (ease of understanding), and accentedness in speakers of Russian-accented American English (RA), Southern-accented American English (SA), and General American English (GAE). Native English listeners (N=126) rated…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Jialei Jiang – Language and Education, 2024
Pairing affect theory with raciolinguistic perspectives, this study examines the racialized and embodied identities of second-generation Chinese American heritage language learners. Drawing on the data collected through in-depth interviews, the study observes that second-generation Chinese Americans' affective experiences, such as their racialized…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Cultural Influences, Racial Factors, Self Concept
Matthew Ayobami Ajibade – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the effects of native language experience and phonetic properties on the discrimination of labial-velar versus labial and velar contrasts, as well as voicing contrasts in labials, velars, and labial-velars. Research indicates that phonological perceptions are influenced by native language experience and the specific…
Descriptors: Native Language, Pronunciation, Phonology, Human Body
Nghi Tin Tran; Thang Tat Nguyen; Hai Hong Pham – rEFLections, 2024
The current study aimed to gain insight into the nuanced challenges that Vietnamese learners encountered due to the interference of their native linguistic structures and norms. This qualitative study explored the experiences of Vietnamese learners in acquiring English, focusing on the influence of negative L1 transfer. This study focused on the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Vietnamese, English (Second Language)
Aurora Tsai; Brenda Straka; Sarah Gaither – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mixed-heritage individuals (MHIs) are known to face high levels of social exclusion. Here, we investigate how raciolinguistic ideologies related to one's heritage language abilities add to these exclusionary experiences. The results from 293 MHIs reveal frequent experiences of marginalisation from members of each of their heritage communities…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Language Variation, Pronunciation, Language Fluency
Stojanovic, Maja; Robinson, Petra Alaine – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to present the experiences, beliefs and perceptions of international faculty at a Research 1 institution in the Southern US regarding the perceived differences between their and their students' and colleagues' cultures and first languages. Design/methodology/approach: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with four…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries
Lee, Bradford J.; Bailey, Justin L. – Language Awareness, 2023
While listeners tend to downgrade speakers' accent and comprehensibility when they perceive them to be from a different language community--a process known as reverse linguistic stereotyping (RLS)--research has generally relied solely on quantitative data such as Likert scale ratings. The current study sought to extend the analysis further by…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Stereotypes, Ethnicity, Intelligibility
Okim Kang; Maria Kostromitina; Xun Yan; Ron I. Thomson; Talia Isaacs – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
There has been much debate in assessment research about the inclusion of Global English accents in high-stakes listening tests. This study explored test-takers' attitudes toward the inclusion of different English accents in the Duolingo English Test (DET) 2021 test version and their associations with listening test scores. One hundred sixty…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software
Identity Clashes of EFL Instructors in Turkey with Regard to Pronunciation and Intonation in English
Çagatay, Sibel – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Foreign language teachers may develop an additional identity besides their own cultural identity. This may lead to a risk of identity clashes for some teachers. In this paper, the L1 identity of the non-native teachers of English in Turkey, and the reflections of it on their professional identity was handled concerning the linguistic components of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, College Faculty
Huda, Miftahul; Irham, Irham – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Soon after Kachru (1992) promoted the notion of the World of English(es) through his 'inner-outer-expanding circle' principle, academic audiences started to recognize that the number of English nonnative speakers had noticeably surpassed that of native speakers. Such a phenomenon has encouraged English learners of diverse lingua-cultural…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gavenila, Euodia Inge; Wulandari, Mega; Renandya, Willy A. – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2021
Extensive listening (EL) is an approach to teaching listening which can help students develop their listening fluency in a more enjoyable way. However, unlike extensive reading which has now enjoyed widespread recognition, EL has received relatively little attention, partly because of the limited availability of suitable listening materials. Given…
Descriptors: Speeches, Teaching Methods, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Gholami, Leila – Language Awareness, 2022
Research on corrective feedback (CF) and language teachers' beliefs and practices on the provision of CF has been mainly limited to learners' non-target-like use of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling (non-formulaic forms). Consequently, learners' non-target-like use of formulaic sequences, that is, collocations, idioms, lexical…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language
Andrew Cheng – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation documents a collection of sociolinguistic and sociophonetic studies of the speech of bilingual Korean Americans in California. Korean Americans are an ethnic minority in the United States whose speech patterns in Korean and English remain understudied. The goal of the studies is to begin sketching out the acoustic traits that…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Pronunciation, Bilingualism, Korean
Kolesnikova, Alexandra; Liubimova, Alina; Muromtseva, Elena; Muromtsev, Anton – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2021
This study examined the attitudes of postgraduate biology students of three top-ranked Russian universities towards the foreign accents of non-native English-speaking lecturers. Fifty participants responded to a questionnaire, the main purpose of which was to explore the listeners' perceptions of professors' accents and their influence on…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Graduate Students, Science Instruction, English (Second Language)
Choi, Jin Soo – Applied Language Learning, 2021
This study examined the impact of the manipulated task complexity (Robinson 2001a, 2001b, 2007, 2011; Robinson & Gilabert, 2007) on second language (L2) speech comprehensibility. I examined whether manipulated task complexity (a) impacts L2 speech comprehensibility, (b) aligns with L2 speakers' perception of task difficulty (cognitive…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation