Publications

Publication details [#60779]

García Lecumberri, María Luisa, Francisco Gallardo del Puerto and Esther Gómez Lacabex. 2015. The assessment of foreign accent and its communicative effects by naïve native judges vs. experienced non-native judges. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 25 (2) : 202–224.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | communicative effect | comprehensibility | evaluation | native vs. non-native interaction

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study unveils notable resemblances as to global foreign accent (FA) evaluation and its possible communicative results (understandability and vexation) between linguistically trained non-native judges (NNJs), teaching English and familiar with the students' L1s and ingenuous native judges (NJs), unfamiliar with the students' L1s.