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ERIC Number: EJ652308
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-1362-1688
Sound Barriers: Influences of Social Prestige, Peer Pressure, and Teacher (Dis)approval on FL Oral Performance.
Lefkowitz, Natalie; Hedgcock, John
Language Teaching Research, v6 n3 p223-44 Sep 2002
Examines how adult, monolingual foreign language learners' oral performance is affected by the degree to which they associate prestige with classmates and teacher disapproval. Explores relationships among learners' views of their own and their peers' pronunciation skills; values associated with native-like speech; beliefs about social conditions favorable to target-like speech; and 4) accuracy of learners' perceptions of desirable pronunciation patterns. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, French, Monolingualism, Oral Language, Prestige, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Standard Spoken Usage
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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