Listening to Different English Varieties and Accents
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This study investigates how well English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners report understanding (i.e. comprehensibility) and actually understand (i.e. intelligibility) native and non-native accents of English, and how EFL learners’ self-reported ease of understanding and actual understanding of these accents are aligned. Thirty-three Dutch-speaking EFL learners performed a comprehensibility and accentedness judgement task, followed by an orthographic transcription task. The judgement task elicited listeners’ scalar ratings of authentic speech from eight speakers with traditional Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle accents. The strength of a speaker’s accent significantly affected listeners’ comprehensibility ratings. Most speakers were highly intelligible, with transcription accuracy ranging between 79% and 95%. The study foregrounds the effect of native and non-native accents on comprehensibility and intelligibility, and highlights the importance of multidialectal listening skills. Key words:Different accents,comprehensibility,listener’s scalar, intelligibility,multidialectal listenings skills, special attention,methodological relevance,based on speech,the flexibility of non-native phonological representations.
Author: Jizzakh branch of National University of Uzbekistan Named after Mirzo Ulug`bek The Faculty of Psychology, the department of Foreign languages Philology and foreign languages Scientific advisor: Teshaboyeva Nafisa Zubaydulla qizi Student of group 101-23:Rustamova Dilafruz Anvar qizi
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930351559
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