appearances and perceptions

[Leo VanLier]

This is in the area of language attitudes and attitude measurement. Take a
look at Colin Baker's book on this.
Also, it reminds me of the old matched guise technique, pioneered I think
by Lambert and/or colleagues in Canada.
Putting some strategic words in Google should yield some leads.

In general psychology, the literature on perception and schema theory
(e.g., Kintsch) may also yield some relevant information.
LvL
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Aileen Kyung Kim <akk at dolphin.upenn.edu> writes:
>Hi ELFers,
>I hope I picked the right listserv to write to. One of the TESOL students
>had
>a question for me, and I swear I encountered readings about it when I was
>studying for the comps, but my memory is going and I can't remember where
>I
>read about it or what the name of the concept is.
>
>The student noticed that her ESL students swore they couldn't understand
>African-Americans because they speak in AAVE, even when the speaker was
>clearly not speaking in AAVE. It seems that they had constructed
>perceptions
>of what the speaker's language based on the externalities (namely race).
>
>Actually, I experienced something similar while I was advising Korean
>TESOL
>students. After finding out that I came to the U.S. when I was very
>young,
>three students, on the same day, said something to this effect: "No
>wonder!
>You talk like a native speaker!" Well, I would hope so, considering I AM
>one. :)