22.3552, Sum: Perception and Impression of Non-native English

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Subject: 22.3552, Sum: Perception and Impression of Non-native English

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Date: 06-Sep-2011
From: Noriko Nakanishi [nakanisi at ba.kobegakuin.ac.jp]
Subject: Perception and Impression of Non-native English
 

	
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:55:22
From: Noriko Nakanishi [nakanisi at ba.kobegakuin.ac.jp]
Subject: Perception and Impression of Non-native English

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Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 22.3255                                                                                                                                               
 

This is a tentative summary of the questionnaire posted to the Query 
on Aug. 15th.
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/sums/query-details.cfm?
submissionid=4529201
I have been collecting the data from
  * Native speakers of English (L1 user)
  * Non-Native speakers of English / Japanese (L2 user)
  * University students learning English in Japan (FL learner)
So far, I got responses from L1 users (n=30), L2 users (n=37), and FL 
learners (n=174).
Some detailed results (yet tentative) have been sent to the participants 
who typed in their e-mail addresses in the questionnaire, and the 
following is a summary of the findings:
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(Part 1)
* Contextual messages have influence on intelligibility in different 
degrees among L1 user / L2 user / FL learner groups.
* Approximately half of the answers indicated participants' "guess work" 
when given the sentences with mispronounced words.
(Part 2)
The 19 questions were tentatively divided into four categories 
according to the types of interpersonal attraction, though the reliability 
analysis will be necessary after the data collection is completed.
* FL learners showed significantly stronger preference for North 
American pronunciation to Japanized pronunciation than L1 and L2 
users in all categories.
* There was one particular category that all the three groups showed 
stronger preference for North American pronunciation than other 
categories.
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Some of the participants kindly pointed out that there was a mistake in 
a pronoun in Section 2. It was my careless mistake, but I found that we 
cannot change any part of the questionnaire once we start running the 
program. I would like to apologize for the confusion.

All the results above are tentative, and further statistical analyses will 
be given once we gain enough number of the participants from "L1 
user" and "L2 user" groups. We will be collecting the data till mid / end 
of September this year. If you have not responded to the questionnaire 
yet, please access the URL below and answer the questions, which will 
take 10-20 minutes. 

http://www.tm.kobegakuin.ac.jp/kyozai/ba/contents01/ 

Also, please forward this message to your friends. 
Thank you. 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics







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