ERIC Number: EJ1116170
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Foreign Accentedness Revisited: Canadian and Singaporean Raters' Perception of Japanese-Accented English
Saito, Kazuya; Shintani, Natsuko
Language Awareness, v25 n4 p305-317 2016
The current study examined how two groups of native speakers--monolingual Canadians and multilingual Singaporeans--differentially perceive foreign accentedness in spontaneous second language (L2) speech. The Singaporean raters, who had exposure to various models of English and also spoke multiple L2s on a daily basis, demonstrated more lenient accent scores than the Canadian raters, who used North American English as their primary language of communication. Both of them used a similar processing strategy to make such accentedness judgements--drawing exclusively on the phonological aspects of L2 speech without taking into account the appropriate/complex use of L2 lexicogrammar.
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), North American English, Grammar, Speech Communication, Phonology, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Native Speakers, Evaluators, Language Processing, Scores, Japanese, Native Language, Correlation, Language Fluency, Asians, Foreign Countries, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada; Singapore
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