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- Title
Exploring Japanese EFL Learners' Attitudes Toward English Pronunciation and its Relationship to Perceived Accentedness.
- Authors
Tsunemoto, Aki; McDonough, Kim
- Abstract
This study investigates what individual differences may play a role in second language (L2) learners' pronunciation, exploring whether English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' attitudes toward English is linked to their perceived accentedness. Japanese EFL secondary school students (N = 62) carried out a 69-word read-aloud task and their speech samples were evaluated by 16 raters for accentedness. A ten-item questionnaire examined the attitudes toward L2 pronunciation of Japanese EFL learners. From the questionnaire, an exploratory factor analysis revealed three dimensions: pronunciation significance, interest in English sounds, and confidence in pronunciation. However, only confidence in pronunciation was significantly correlated with accentedness scores. Results are discussed in terms of the relationship between affective factors and L2 pronunciation attainment.
- Subjects
JAPAN; RESEARCH; HIGH schools; STATISTICS; CONFIDENCE; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH evaluation; TASK performance; LEARNING strategies; CONCEPTUAL structures; ENGLISH as a foreign language; DIALECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; FACTOR analysis; SCALE analysis (Psychology); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; STUDENT attitudes; STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis; HIGH school students
- Publication
Language & Speech, 2021, Vol 64, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
0023-8309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0023830919900372