Nagamine, Takayuki; (2020) Intelligibility of Varieties of English and Listeners' Language Learning Backgrounds. In: Kang, Okim and Staples, Shelley and Yaw, Kate and Hirschi, Kevin, (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. (pp. pp. 261-269). Northern Arizona University: Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

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This study investigated how the English proficiency and the study abroad (SA) experience of native Japanese learners of English who learn English as a foreign language (EFL) affects their actual levels of understanding of accent varieties and their confidence to understand them. Forty-two Japanese EFL learners listened to seven speakers (from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, Taiwan, and Japan). They answered a total of 21 multiple-choice questions for measuring intelligibility and gave ratings for the measurement of confidence in understanding the content. The results indicated that the listener’s English proficiency influenced confidence and intelligibility more than the SA experience. The effects of accent variation were small, although Taiwanese-accented English was related to both confidence and intelligibility.

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