Reexamining L2 accent: How much can personality explain?

Zárate-Sández, Germán

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n3p227

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“…Moreover, the same study showed that empathy was a significant correlate of accurate pronunciation (r=.26, p=.024). Another researcher investigating the link between the Big Five personality traits and pronunciation is Zárate-Sández (2017). This time, the data were gathered among 51 highly advanced American learners of Spanish, whose level of accentedness was rated with the use a picture description task and a 6-point accentedness Likert scale.…”

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Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction

Baran-Łucarz

2023

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The main goal of the study reported in this paper was to verify whether the Big Five personality traits can be considered correlates of accentedness in a setting deprived of pronunciation-focused instruction. Each trait was measured among 58 English majors in Poland, who were just beginning their education at the university, by the means of the Polish version of Goldberg’s measure, i.e. IPIP-BFM-50. The levels of the traits were correlated with the participants’ degree of accentedness assessed by 2 judges on a 9-point Likert scale with the use of a reading task. The quantitative data were supplemented by interviews with 10 participants representing high and low levels of accentedness, which allowed to diagnose their motivation, attitudes towards the sound of English, pronunciation self-perceptions, and strategies applied in autonomous learning. The quantitative data showed a weak correlation only between Openness to experience and accentedness, which was further moderated by the other above-mentioned individual learner differences. Additionally, the qualitative outcomes suggested the importance of Agreeableness, which was found to be very high or high among learners with the lowest levels of accentedness.

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Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction

Baran-Łucarz

2023

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Матеріали Студентських Наукових Читань : Зб. Наук. Праць. Вип. 11

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2023

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У збірнику порушено актуальні проблеми сучасної філології та дидактики. Розглянуто традиційні й нетрадиційні підходи щодо осмислення тих чи тих, передовсім лінгвістичних і літературознавчих, явищ. Обґрунтовано потребу дослідження стилістичного аспекту і його роль у формуванні професійної майстерності фахівця в галузі освіти, у процесі підготовки майбутнього вчителя. Для здобувачів і викладачів закладів освіти різних типів.

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The impact of mixed-cultural speech on the stereotypical perception of a virtual robot

Obremski

Friedrich²,

Haak³

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Front. Robot. AI

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Despite the fact that mixed-cultural backgrounds become of increasing importance in our daily life, the representation of multiple cultural backgrounds in one entity is still rare in socially interactive agents (SIAs). This paper’s contribution is twofold. First, it provides a survey of research on mixed-cultured SIAs. Second, it presents a study investigating how mixed-cultural speech (in this case, non-native accent) influences how a virtual robot is perceived in terms of personality, warmth, competence and credibility. Participants with English or German respectively as their first language watched a video of a virtual robot speaking in either standard English or German-accented English. It was expected that the German-accented speech would be rated more positively by native German participants as well as elicit the German stereotypes credibility and conscientiousness for both German and English participants. Contrary to the expectations, German participants rated the virtual robot lower in terms of competence and credibility when it spoke with a German accent, whereas English participants perceived the virtual robot with a German accent as more credible compared to the version without an accent. Both the native English and native German listeners classified the virtual robot with a German accent as significantly more neurotic than the virtual robot speaking standard English. This work shows that by solely implementing a non-native accent in a virtual robot, stereotypes are partly transferred. It also shows that the implementation of a non-native accent leads to differences in the perception of the virtual robot.

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Reexamining L2 accent: How much can personality explain?

Cited by 3 publications

References 56 publications

Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction

Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction

Матеріали Студентських Наукових Читань : Зб. Наук. Праць. Вип. 11

The impact of mixed-cultural speech on the stereotypical perception of a virtual robot

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