Self-Esteem, Self-Expectancy and Oral Achievement in the Tunisian EFL Context

Toujani, Marwa Mekni; Hermessi, Tarek

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98533-6_8

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“…On the one hand, a positive relationship between L2 selfesteem and L2 achievement (Alrabai, 2017;Asakereh and Yousofi, 2018), exposure to L2 and self-assessment of L2 skills, including speaking skills (Habrat, 2018), fluency (Koosha, Ketabi, and Kassaian, 2011) and proficiency level (Souresjani and Naseri, 2011) has been confirmed. On the other hand, no significant correlation has been found between self-esteem and pronunciation, comprehensibility (Koosha, Ketabi, and Kassaian, 2011), and oral achievement (Mekni Toujani and Hermessi, 2019). Generally, low level of L2 self-esteem has been associated with lower risk-taking behaviour, higher anxiety and impaired communication skills (Branden, 1995;Habrat, 2018;Mercer, 2011;Rubio-Alcalá, 2017).…”

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L2 Accentedness and Language Self-Esteem in Foreign Language Learning

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2022

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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 to which a learner’s L2 pronunciation differs from a listener’s representation of it – accentedness. The results show that the level of L2 self-esteem correlates with accentedness, and the direction of this correlation is negative (r = -.51). The findings also reveal that the L2 self-esteem levels of the participants whose accentedness is closer to native-like are significantly higher than those of the individuals with strongly accented speech.

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Section: L2 Self-esteemmentioning

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L2 Accentedness and Language Self-Esteem in Foreign Language Learning

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2022

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Self-Esteem, Self-Expectancy and Oral Achievement in the Tunisian EFL Context

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L2 Accentedness and Language Self-Esteem in Foreign Language Learning

L2 Accentedness and Language Self-Esteem in Foreign Language Learning

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