Language, race or place? Influential factors in determining young “Coloured” individuals’ attitudes towards Afrikaans accents in English

Mosquera, Pedro Álvarez; Marín-Gutiérrez, Alejandro

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2020.103027

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“…Related to the language, unavoidable accented English appears according to the social background of the story. It can be in the form of received pronunciation (RP) in British or General American (GA) and other possible accents [65], [66]. When it comes to American English, spoken language materializes in slang (an informal language variation) as a form of natural conversation.…”

Section: Features In Pedagogymentioning

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Elements of digital media in vocabulary remote-learning achievement

Pinem¹,

Rahmawan

2023

IJERE

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<span lang="EN-US">The urge of finding the most suitable method of remote teaching in a pandemic situation has become the center of recent studies. Equipped with instructional scaffolding, the absence of a teacher as a mentor in an asynchronous online class could be replaced by more interesting media for students’ self-study. This study was to look at games, songs, and a movie as media to enhance students’ achievement in English vocabulary. Further, elements in each media were observed along with students’ perceptions to explain the affected area in detail. This descriptive quantitative study used paired samples t-test toward students’ post-test scores of a control group (n=100) and an experimental group (n=100) in vocabulary. Students’ perception of taking media as learning tools in experimental class was measured in a questionnaire to explain the results. Results showed that the significantly experimental group outperformed in the final score. Trend on students’ perception in an experimental group toward these teaching media involved shared and specific features in media design, psychological and pedagogic elements. Further, it turned out that some primary and subsidiary features in games exceeded two other media (songs and movies) in vice versa generating some recommendations for future improvement.</span>

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Section: Features In Pedagogymentioning

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Elements of digital media in vocabulary remote-learning achievement

Pinem¹,

Rahmawan

2023

IJERE

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“…The significance of studying the perception of foreign accents lies in that foreign accents can arouse positive or negative evaluative responses of listeners (Álvarez-Mosquera & Marín-Gutiérrez, 2021;Hendriks et al, 2017;Nejjari et al, 2019). Therefore, the comprehensibility of a speaker's speech and the attitude towards the speaker can be significantly impacted by accents.…”

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Non-native listeners perceiving foreign accentedness of English speech: new evidence from Chinese and Spanish listeners

Xue,

Shan,

Wang

et al. 2023

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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As an international language, English is an important tool for people of different native languages to communicate with each other. Many empirical studies, proving that foreign accents are prevalent in L2 learners’ oral English, involved native speakers as raters of foreign accents. This study compared the rating patterns of listeners from Chinese, Spanish and English language backgrounds with different English proficiencies for foreign accents in English speech and investigated the acoustical cues used by these listeners. Results showed that Chinese listeners, sharing language backgrounds with talkers, tended to be more tolerant for the Chinese accent in English speech. Spanish listeners had a stricter criterion for mild Chinese accents, proving that the influence of listeners’ L1 on their perception of foreign accents can be different for different degrees of accents. The effects of listeners’ L2 proficiency was found for Chinese listeners’ perception of accents and the number of acoustic predictors used by non-native English listeners. The study provides more evidence about the mechanism of native and non-native listeners’ perception of foreign accent and offers implications for the recruitment of raters for the assessment of oral English.

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