L2 Accentedness and Language Self-Esteem in Foreign Language Learning

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.20.1.02

Magdalena Szyszka

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Abstract

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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第二语言口音与外语学习中的语言自尊

口音与听者的评价性判断有关，评价性判断可能会影响二语说话者对语言自我价值和能力的形象构建，即语言(二语)自尊。本文研究了二语自尊与学习者的二语发音与听者的发音差异程度之间的关系。结果表明，第二语言自尊水平与口音程度呈负相关(r = - 0.51)。研究结果还表明，那些口音更接近母语的参与者的第二语言自尊水平明显高于那些口音很重的人。

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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.