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Linguistic dimensions of l2 accentedness and comprehensibility vary across speaking tasks
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Flawed self-assessment: investigating self- and other-perception of second language speech
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This study targeted the relationship between self- and other-assessment of accentedness and comprehensibility in second language (L2) speech, extending prior social and cognitive research documenting weak or non-existing links between people's self-assessment and objective measures of performance. Results of two experiments (N = 134) revealed mostly inaccurate self-assessment: speakers at the low end of the accentedness and comprehensibility scales overestimated their performance; speakers at the high end of each scale underestimated it. For both accent and comprehensibility, discrepancies in self- versus other-assessment were associated with listener-rated measures of phonological accuracy and temporal fluency but not with listener-rated measures of lexical appropriateness and richness, grammatical accuracy and complexity, or discourse structure. Findings suggest that inaccurate self-assessment is linked to the inherent complexity of L2 perception and production as cognitive skills and point to several ways of helping L2 speakers align or calibrate their self-assessment with their actual performance.
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Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
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URL: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13310/3/13310.pdf https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13310/ https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000832
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Does a speaking task affect second language comprehensibility?
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Second language comprehensibility revisited: investigating the effects of learner background
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