Aug 1, 2023 · Accent familiarity can influence listeners' perception of second language speech. However, the field lacks empirical evidence for defining and measuri…

Our overarching research question is whether Chinese Mandarin-speaking learners of English evaluate their own accents more comprehensible and less accented than Standard American …

Jun 15, 2023 · In this paper, we present a set of accent rating experiments and explore how Chinese learners of English judge their own variety as well as Standard American English.

Abstract low-proficiency second language (L2) learners. It begins with testing the English listening proficiency of Chinese students and then compares the influence of three accented English (a …

The findings have implications for English education and provide suggestions for Chinese students to improve their pronunciation accuracy as well as their perception of accents.

English and Mandarin have significant differences in their vowel and consonant systems, tones, intonation, and syl-lable structures. A deep understanding of these differences allows learners to …

In developing his theory of second language acquisition, Krashen (1982) suggests five hypotheses: the acquisition-learning hypothesis; the natural order hypothesis; the input hypothesis; and the affective …

1. Introduction ay & Burt in 1977, and its major objective was to explain how affective elements affected the process of learning a foreign language. The Affective Filter was described as “an internal …

The Influence of Chinese Dialect on English Pronunciation Acquisition: Evidence from Liaoning Accent as An Example second language because their mother tongue is categorized into non-tonal.

These findings suggest that listeners’ perceptions of speakers’ affective states intertwine with their spoken language ratings to form a visual component of second-language communication. The …