Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents

This paper presents some preliminary findings of a study which investigates undergraduate ESL learners’ perceptions of British, American, Australian and New Zealand English accents. The participants were 66 Malaysian undergraduates from a public university in Malaysia. They were presented with sp...

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Main Authors:	Pilus, Zahariah, Zakaria, Nur Shahida, Zakaria, Muhamad Khairul
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	PE English
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/7/ABRM%20Female%20speakers%27%20accents%20%281%29.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/19/52121_tentative.pdf

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spelling	iium-521212016-11-28T02:13:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/ Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents Pilus, Zahariah Zakaria, Nur Shahida Zakaria, Muhamad Khairul PE English This paper presents some preliminary findings of a study which investigates undergraduate ESL learners’ perceptions of British, American, Australian and New Zealand English accents. The participants were 66 Malaysian undergraduates from a public university in Malaysia. They were presented with speech samples of four female native speakers reading a short passage. The students were asked to rate the speakers for a number of items including the ease of understanding, sounding comfortable to the ears, being an ideal English teacher and being a speaker they would want to sound like. The learners were also asked to state the nationalities of the speakers. In general, the study found that the speakers whose accents were familiar to the learners were rated higher in terms of the items examined. The study also found that the speakers whose accents were familiar to the learners were better identified for their nationalities than those whose accents were less familiar to them. Pedagogical implications of these findings on English language teaching and learning in Malaysia are discussed. 2016-09-19 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/7/ABRM%20Female%20speakers%27%20accents%20%281%29.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/19/52121_tentative.pdf Pilus, Zahariah and Zakaria, Nur Shahida and Zakaria, Muhamad Khairul (2016) Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents. In: 2nd International Conference on the Institutional Leadership, Learning and Teaching (ILLT), 19th-20th Sept. 2016, Cambridge, United Kingdom. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	PE English Pilus, Zahariah Zakaria, Nur Shahida Zakaria, Muhamad Khairul Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents
description	This paper presents some preliminary findings of a study which investigates undergraduate ESL learners’ perceptions of British, American, Australian and New Zealand English accents. The participants were 66 Malaysian undergraduates from a public university in Malaysia. They were presented with speech samples of four female native speakers reading a short passage. The students were asked to rate the speakers for a number of items including the ease of understanding, sounding comfortable to the ears, being an ideal English teacher and being a speaker they would want to sound like. The learners were also asked to state the nationalities of the speakers. In general, the study found that the speakers whose accents were familiar to the learners were rated higher in terms of the items examined. The study also found that the speakers whose accents were familiar to the learners were better identified for their nationalities than those whose accents were less familiar to them. Pedagogical implications of these findings on English language teaching and learning in Malaysia are discussed.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Pilus, Zahariah Zakaria, Nur Shahida Zakaria, Muhamad Khairul
author_facet	Pilus, Zahariah Zakaria, Nur Shahida Zakaria, Muhamad Khairul
author_sort	Pilus, Zahariah
title	Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents
title_short	Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents
title_full	Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents
title_fullStr	Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents
title_full_unstemmed	Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents
title_sort	native english: esl learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/7/ABRM%20Female%20speakers%27%20accents%20%281%29.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/52121/19/52121_tentative.pdf
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Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents

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