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• Title:
  L2 Accentedness and Language Self-Esteem in Foreign Language Learning
• Creator:
  Szyszka , Magdalena
• Contributor:
  University of Opole, Poland;
  mszyszka@uni.opole.pl
• Description:
  Accentedness is associated with listeners’ evaluative judgements, which might affect an L2 speaker’s construction of an image about linguistic self-worth and competence, described as language (L2) self-esteem. This line of inquiry is pursued in the study presented in this paper, which investigates the relationship between L2 self-esteem and the extent to which a learner’s L2 pronunciation differs from a listener’s representation of it – accentedness. The results show that the level of L2 self-esteem correlates with accentedness, and the direction of this correlation is negative (r = -.51). The findings also reveal that the L2 self-esteem levels of the participants whose accentedness is closer to native-like are significantly higher than those of the individuals with strongly accented speech.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2023.01.10;
  2022.12.29
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;1;
  20
• Subject:
  self-esteem;
  language self-esteem;
  accentedness;
  foreign language learning
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/45245 ;
  10.18778/1731-7533.20.1.02
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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