Foreign accent influence on L2 English speech comprehension by Japanese EFL learners
| Project/Area Number |
25370709
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Osaka Kyoiku University (2014-2016)
Kinki University (2013) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
大和 知史 神戸大学, 大学教育推進機構, 教授 (80370005)
生馬 裕子 大阪教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60549088)
平井 愛 神戸学院大学, 共通教育センター, 准教授 (10554339)
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| Research Collaborator |
TAKEYAMA Tomoko
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Keywords | 外国語訛り / 発話理解 / 理解性 / 明瞭性 / 文理解 / 処理難度 / リスニング / 反応時間 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study aims to examine how foreign accents derived from one’s first language (L1) affect second language (L2) sentence comprehension processes in communications between non-native speakers of English from different L1 backgrounds. Japanese L1 learners of L2 English listened to a series of English sentences produced by Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai L1 speakers. The listeners found English utterances by Japanese and Korean speakers easy to understand, possibly due to the similarity in phonetic and phonological features between the two languages, while the Chinese and Thai speakers’ English utterances posed comprehension difficulties.
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