Kuronen, M., P. Lintunen & T. Nieminen (toim.) . Näkökulmia toisen kielen puheeseenInsights into second language speech. AFinLA-e. Soveltavan kieli eteen tutkimuksia / n:o .-.
Minnaleena Toivola¹ & Riikka Ullakonoja²¹University of Helsinki, ²University of Jyväskylä
Iden fica on of Russian accented Finnish by na ve and non-na ve listeners with and without Finnish proficiencyThe study focuses on how different groups of listeners, that is na ve Finnish speakers (n = ), non-na ve learners of Finnish (n = ) and non-na ve non-learners of Finnish (n = ), judge samples (n = ) of Russian accented Finnish in an auditory experiment. The samples are readaloud phrases of three Finnish speakers and three L Russian beginner learners of Finnish who were recorded three mes at six-month intervals during their residence in Finland. The results show that the listener groups differ significantly from each other in the ability to iden fy the Russian accented samples. In addi on, all the listener groups reported to have paid more a en on to prosodic and segmental cues than speech rate. Finally, we conclude by considering implica ons of the study to further longitudinal studies on percep on of foreign accented speech.
In this paper, we present a multidisciplinary study addressing fairness in the speaking test in a high-stakes language proficiency test in Finnish, National Certificates of Language Proficiency. The background of the research lies in studies on language assessment and (reversal) linguistic stereotyping and language attitudes. The focus L1 groups were Thai, Estonian, Finland Swedish, Arabic and Russian. Altogether 49 speech samples of test takers of these L1s were rated on a digital platform by 44 raters of the test system. The current paper reports on the sub-study that investigated whether the raters’ recognition of the test takers’ L1 affected their ratings and whether the effect differed across various assessment criteria.
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