The Effect of Accents on Cognitive Load and Achievement: The Relationship between Students' Accent Perception and Accented Voice Instructions in Students' Achievement
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate how an instructor's accent influences students' learning achievement.Furthermore, this study also explored how students' accent preference may affect their learning.Unlike native voices, accented voices were not natural to the native speakers; therefore, it required more cognitive resources for processing the information, compared to native voice, which reduces the quality of students' learning experience (Mayer, Sobko, & Mautone, 2003).However, this did not explain how students' accent preference might influence their learning achievement.In order to address this unique and challenging issue, the research needed to compare the students' accent preference to their achievement scores by determining at what level of accent the non native voice causes an increase in cognitive load.The study was experimental research.The study had three parts; survey, instruction, and assessment.Before the experiment, participants completed a short survey about their general knowledge of statistics, familiarity with multimedia learning, and accent perceptions.During the experiment, participants were randomly assigned to view a short multimedia instruction explaining how to use the software program, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences).The instructions were given in either a Episodic Buffer ..........................
Author: Jeahyeon Ahn
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1580446605