Assessing Language Attitudes: Speaker Evaluation Studies

Giles, Howard; Billings, Andrew C.

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“…This observation is in line with the findings that expressed language attitudes do not always equal linguistic behaviour (Bainbridge 2001a(Bainbridge , 2001bEdwards 1985Edwards , 1994Garrett et al 2003;Giles & Billings 2004;Lewis 1981;Niedzielski & Preston 2003;Potter 1999;Potter & Edwards 2001;Potter & Wetherell 1987;Shotter 1993;Zanna & Rempel 1988). In other words, I do not assume a simple correlation between an expressed view on grammar and actual learning preferences or behaviour in language classes.…”

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Grammar is the heart of language: grammar and its role in language learning among Finnish university students

Saaristo¹

2015

Voices of Pedagogical Development – Expanding, Enhancing and Exploring Higher Education Language Learning

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Grammar is the heart of language: grammar and its role in language learning among Finnish university students

Saaristo¹

2015

Voices of Pedagogical Development – Expanding, Enhancing and Exploring Higher Education Language Learning

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“…The results of Experiment 1 offer two suggestions. First, like adults (e.g., Giles & Billings, 2004), children make inferences about others' personalities and geographic origins based on their accent. Second, though children positively evaluated the native speakers in many cases, this positivity did not necessarily extend to all domains.…”

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Children's sociolinguistic evaluations of nice foreigners and mean Americans.

Kinzler

DeJesus²

2013

Developmental Psychology

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Abstract:Three experiments investigated 5-to 6-year-old monolingual English-speaking American children's sociolinguistic evaluations of others based on their accent (native, foreign) and social actions (nice, mean, neutral). In Experiment 1, children expressed social preferences for nativeaccented English speakers over foreign-accented speakers, and they judged the native-accented speakers to be 'American.' In Experiments 2 and 3, the accented speakers were depicted as being nicer than the relatively meaner native speakers. Children's social preferences and judgments of others' personalities varied as a function of behavior; in particular, children disliked individuals who committed negative social actions. In contrast, children's judgments of nationality hinged exclusively on accent; across all conditions, children evaluated native-accented English speakers to be 'American,' regardless of whether they were nice or mean. These findings contribute to an understanding of the nature of children's reasoning about language as a social category and have implications for future research investigating children's thinking about language as a marker of national group identity.Keywords: language | nationality | social cognition | sociolinguistic evaluations | Englishspeaking American children | native-accented speakers Article:Children's social evaluations of others take on myriad forms. Some of these include evaluations that are based on an individual's history of behaviors. For example, children judge others based on their social actions and can use previous behavior to predict an individual's future acts (e.g., Cain, Heyman, & Walker, 1997). Others include evaluations of individuals based on their social group membership. For instance, children express social preferences for novel individuals (who have yet to display any actions) based on their race, gender, and accent (e.g., Aboud, 1988;Kinzler, Shutts, DeJesus, & Spelke, 2009;Ruble, Martin, & Berenbaum, 2006). Although potentially misleading, inferences based on social group membership have consequences for interpersonal evaluations and interactions throughout the lifespan (e.g., Gluszek & Dovidio, 2010). Building on research indicating that children express robust social preferences for novel individuals who share their native accent (Kinzler, Dupoux, & Spelke, 2007;Kinzler et al., 2009), the current research compares the judgments children make of others based on their accent and their past history of nice or mean behaviors. We investigate (a) whether children's preferences for native individuals are impacted by knowledge of a particular individual's social actions and (b) how the types of inferences that children make about others based on their accent versus their behaviors compare.Language and accent provide an important guide for children's early social preferences, but the reasons for this phenomenon remain unclear. Past research provides evidence that infants prefer to look at individuals who previously spoke in the native language of the infants' home environ...

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“…La revitalización y mantenimiento de lenguas, por otra parte, depende, entre diversos factores, de las actitudes que los usuarios y los grupos dominantes tengan hacia estos códigos comunicativos (Pauwels, 2004: 726). Asimismo, los estudiosos de la interacción comunicativa han hallado en este concepto una valiosísima herramienta interpretativa (Giles y Billings, 2004). En suma, el estudio de las actitudes lingüísticas en la actualidad resulta de interés transversal para variados campos de estudio dentro de las disciplinas que deben enfrentarse con problemas en que los aspectos sociales afectan al uso del lenguaje.…”

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Corrección idiomática atribuida al español de los países hispanohablantes por sujetos de Santiago de Chile

Rojas

2012

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Assessing Language Attitudes: Speaker Evaluation Studies

Cited by 165 publications

References 77 publications

Grammar is the heart of language: grammar and its role in language learning among Finnish university students

Grammar is the heart of language: grammar and its role in language learning among Finnish university students

Children's sociolinguistic evaluations of nice foreigners and mean Americans.

Corrección idiomática atribuida al español de los países hispanohablantes por sujetos de Santiago de Chile

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