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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Accented English"”.
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Evoked expectations and evaluational reactions to accented English
… accent. It was hypothesized that: (1) Spanish accented speakers would be evaluated less favorably than standard English speakers; (2) listeners would rate both accented and non-accented speakers on the basis of their expectations and not according to the speakers' actual vocal characteristics; …
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Speech intelligibility: a study of Iraqi EFL learners’ accented English
… refers to a targeted pronunciation level in English which enables non-native English speakers to produce and understand English speech uttered by both native and non-native English speakers (Abercrombie, 1949; Gimson, 2001; Cruttenden, 2014; Munro and Derwing, 2006; Levis, 2016). Instead of …
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The effects of Indian-accented English and need for cognition on message evaluation: A field study
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It is "broken" and "accented": Non-native English-speaking (NNES) Graduate Students' Perceptions toward NNES Instructors' English
… study investigates the perceptions of non-native English-speaking graduate students towards non-native English speaking (NNES) instructors’ accented English. Students (N=161) who were enrolled in an oral English course at Purdue University participated in a survey. Follow-up interviews were …
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A test of the effects of linguistic stereotypes in children's animated film: A language attitude study.
… animated films influence childrens' opinions of accented-English. Two hundred and eighteen 3rd through 5th graders participated in a web-based survey. They listened to speakers with various accents: Mainstream US English (MUSE), African American Vernacular English (AAVE), French, British, and …
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Mispronunciation Detection for Language Learning and Speech Recognition Adaptation
… examining the shifting of fundamental vowels in accented speech. This approach uses both acoustic and phonetic information to detect accents and is shown to be beneficial with accented English. These applications can be integrated into an automated international calling system, to improve …
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The Role of Care Practices, Mutual Aid, and Racial Formation in Black Newcomer Practitioners’ Lived Experience Within Organizations: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry
… findings highlighted the ways participants accented English led to experiences of racism and xenophobia that shaped their personal and professional roles. Finally, participants shared insights into the ways their relationship with America shaped their claims or rejection of the African …
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The Historian’s Daughter (A novel); Monsters and Memory (An essay)
… the voices of Indian and Iranian women speaking accented English. I was interested in their responses to particular written texts and whether those stories accurately represented their bicultural ‘belongings.’ Therefore, I initiated a Reading Group and invited them, over an eighteen-month period, …
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"I Could Not Understand Anything They Said!": Non-Native English Speaking Instructors, Online Learning, and Student Anxiety
<p>Non-native English speaking (NNES) instructors are often rated lower within course evaluations and are typically criticized for their accents (Rubin, 1992; Subtirelu, 2015). Reasonings behind this have not been researched much in terms of online education, though the relevance of this topic is …