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

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.21.4.03

Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz

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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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作为口音相关因素的个性：不注重发音教学的正式环境案例

本文所报告研究的主要目的是验证在缺乏以发音为重点的教学环境中，五大人格特质是否可被视为口音的相关因素。研究采用戈德伯格测量法的波兰语版本（即 IPIP-BFM-50），对波兰 58 名刚进入大学学习的英语专业学生的每种特质进行了测量。这些特质的水平与参与者的口音程度相关，由两名评委通过阅读任务以 9 分李克特量表进行评估。除了定量数据外，还对 10 名重音程度较高和较低的参与者进行了访谈，以了解他们的学习动机、对英语发音的态度、对发音的自我认知以及在自主学习中采用的策略。定量数据显示，经验开放度与口音程度之间只有微弱的相关性，而上述其他学习者个体差异又进一步调节了这种相关性。此外，定性结果表明了 "同意度 "的重要性，在口音水平最低的学习者中，"同意度 "非常高或很高。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.