Article published in:
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 7 (2007)Edited by Leah Roberts, Ayşe Gürel, Sibel Tatar and Leyla Martı
[EUROSLA Yearbook 7] 2007
► pp. 171–190
Foreign accent in advanced learners
Two successful profiles
Carmen Muñoz | University of Barcelona
David Singleton | Trinity College Dublin
Research has generally found age of learning (AOL) (i.e., age of initial significant L2 exposure) to predict degree of foreign accent (FA), while length of residence (LOR) has sometimes been seen as simply a corollary of AOL. The subjects in the present study were twelve late L2 learners of English with an average AOL of 22.5 and an average LOR of 10, plus a native-speaker control group. All the English-L2 subjects had Spanish and/or Catalan as L1. Short extracts were taken from their oral retelling of a film narrative and judged for FA by four native speakers of English. Language background data were elicited by questionnaire and interview. A significant difference overall emerged between native speakers and non-natives in terms of FA ratings. However, two of the learners scored within the native-speaker range. The discussion examines the possible influence of an array of factors on degree of FA, and explores what might underlie the native-like performance of the two most successful learners.
Published online: 10 August 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.7.10mun
https://doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.7.10mun
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