Listening with an attitude: A model of native-speaker comprehension of non-native speakers in the United States  

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Lindemann, Stephanie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 31 no. 3 (Jun. 2002), page 419–441.
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This study investigates whether there is a relationship between negative at- titudes toward non-native speakers and poor comprehension of those speak- ers. Twelve native English speakers whose attitudes toward Koreans had been assessed were asked to complete an interactional map task paired with native Korean speakers. In the task, some but not all of those who had been assessed as having negative attitudes toward Koreans were found to use either strat- egies that were described as problematizing their partners’utterances, or strat- egies that were described as avoidance. All participants completed the map task reasonably successfully except where the native English speaker used avoidance strategies, suggesting that the relationship between attitude and comprehension is mediated by the native speaker’s choice of strategies. How- ever, there appeared to be a direct relationship between attitude and perceived success of interactions, which may ultimately have the same consequences for interactants as if the relationship were between attitude and actual suc- cess. (Language attitudes, native–non-native interaction, discourse strategies, Koreans, conversation analysis, experimental sociolinguistics)*

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