2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
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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| Research Collaborator |
TAKEYAMA Tomoko
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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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 |
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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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| Free Research Field |
心理言語学
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