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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2234-2264, December 2025.Abstract Global Englishes language teaching (GELT) promotes, among other things, positive attitudes and maximized understanding to communicate with speakers with a variety of accents. However, research on GELT‐informed listening training is rare, and none has addressed both attitudes and understanding of diverse accents.
Hyeseung Jeong +3 more
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Accentedness Ratings of English Loanwords by Acadian French Listeners [PDF]
Revue québécoise de linguistique, 2009 This study investigates how native speakers of Acadian French evaluate the accentedness of loanwords entering their language from English. 83 university students, who were divided into three levels of proficiency in English, rated eight loanwords. The loans were chosen to represent a range of phonetic and social integration. Results show that listeners'
Harriott, Phillip, Cichocki, Wladyslaw
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Reexamining L2 accent: How much can personality explain?
Ilha do Desterro, 2017 Previous studies have shown that learners’ individual differences (e.g., motivation, age) can impact second language learners’ pronunciation. This study focused on one individual difference that has received relatively little attention, namely ...
Germán Zárate-Sández
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Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment
Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 832-862, September 2025.Abstract Research on second language (L2) pronunciation self‐assessment reports a general misalignment between self‐ and other‐assessment. This has been attributed to the object of self‐assessment, the self‐assessment task, the measures to which self‐assessment is compared, and speakers’ characteristics.
Cesar Teló he/him +3 more
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L2 Accentedness and Language Self-Esteem in Foreign Language Learning
Research in Language, 2022 Accentedness is associated with listeners’ evaluative judgements, which might affect an L2 speaker’s construction of an image about linguistic self-worth and competence, described as language (L2) self-esteem. This line of inquiry is pursued in the study presented in this paper, which investigates the relationship between L2 self-esteem and the extent ...
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Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue S1, Page 204-241, September 2025.Abstract This study investigated the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and signal detection processes to generate meaningful visual and ChatGPT‐like narrative feedback on second language (L2) English intelligibility. To test the effects and perceptions of such techniques, three groups of learners (N = 90) received visual and narrative feedback
Kevin Hirschi +4 more
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Lexical correlates of comprehensibility versus accentedness in second language speech [PDF]
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2015 The current project investigated the extent to which several lexical aspects of second language (L2) speech – appropriateness, fluency, variation, sophistication, abstractness, sense relations – interact to influence native speakers’ judgements of comprehensibility (ease of understanding) and accentedness (linguistic nativelikeness).
Saito, Kazuya +3 more
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Foreign Language Annals, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 346-366, Summer 2025.Abstract Although the distinction between explicit and implicit (automatized) knowledge of second or foreign language (L2) is of crucial importance to second language acquisition (SLA) theory and research, it has thus far not been directly applied to L2 pronunciation.
Mirosław Pawlak
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Voice accentedness, but not gender, affects social responses to a computer tutor
Frontiers in Computer ScienceThe current study had two goals: First, we aimed to conduct a conceptual replication and extension of a classic study by Nass et al. in 1997 who found that participants display voice-gender bias when completing a tutoring session with a computer.
Allison Jones, Georgia Zellou
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Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 194-209, June 2025.ABSTRACT Sociophonetic perception is often studied using versions of the matched guise technique (MGT). Linguists using this technique appear united in the methodological assumptions that participants believe the manipulation and that this belief influences perception below the level of introspective awareness.
Kyler Laycock, Kevin B. McGowan
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