Attitudinal and affective response toward accented English
Attitudinal and affective response toward accented English
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DOI：
10.1016/s0271-5309(01)00025-8
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发表时间：
2002-04-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Shearman, SM
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作者：
Bresnahan, MJ;Ohashi, R;Shearman, SM
本研究从角色认同和可理解性两个方面评估了学生对口音英语的态度和情感反应。虽然美国英语是首选，可理解的外国口音导致更积极的态度和情感反应相比，外国口音是不可理解的。此外，无论口音如何，与助教相比，朋友在情感和态度上都被认为是更积极的。这项研究还评估了参与者的种族认同是否对态度或情感有任何影响。正如预测的那样，表现出强烈民族认同的人更喜欢美式英语，而民族认同较弱的人更容易接受外国口音。这些结果表明，更大的可理解性的外国口音似乎与更积极的态度和情感反应，特别是对那些强烈认同自己的种族群体的人。(C)2002爱思唯尔科技有限公司版权所有。
The study evaluated attitudinal and affective responses toward accented English based on variation in role identity and intelligibility. While American English was preferred, intelligible foreign accent resulted in more positive attitude and affective response compared to a foreign accent that was unintelligible. In addition, friends were viewed more positively for affect and attitude compared to teaching assistants regardless of accent. The study also assessed whether the strength of participants' ethnic identity had any effect on attitude or affect. As predicted, people exhibiting strong ethnic identity preferred American English while people with weak ethnic identity were more accepting of foreign accent. These results suggest that greater intelligibility of foreign accent appears to be related to both more positive attitudes and affective responses especially for people who identify strongly with their ethnic group. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.