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- Title
Learners' Ethnic Group Affiliation and L2 Pronunciation Accuracy: A Sociolinguistic Investigation.
- Authors
Gatbonton, Elizabeth; Trofimovich, Pavel; Magid, Michael
- Abstract
This article focuses on a research conducted to determine the relationship between ethnic group affiliation (one's sense of belonging to a primary ethnic group) and second language (L2) pronunciation accuracy. Normally, ethnic group affiliation exists quietly, acknowledged by all, but not subjected to much discussion or questioning. But when people come into contact with other groups, when they move to new settings in search of better social, educational, and economic opportunities or as others move to their country for similar reasons, their contact with other groups foregrounds group identity and affiliation issues. If they belong to ethnic groups for whom language is a symbol of identity, they use language to reflect, reaffirm, renegotiate, or reconstruct these identities. The study addressed questions related to the existence of the relationship between learners' L2 accent and ethnic group affiliation as perceived by fellow learners the behavioral consequences if such relationship exists.
- Subjects
ETHNIC groups; SECOND language acquisition; INTONATION (Phonetics); GROUP identity; LINGUISTIC analysis; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 2005, Vol 39, Issue 3, p489
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3588491