LINGUIST List 22.3552 Sun Sep 11 2011 Sum: Perception and Impression of Non-native English Editor for this issue: Brent Woo <bwoolinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Noriko Nakanishi , Perception and Impression of Non-native English Message 1: Perception and Impression of Non-native English Date: 06-Sep-2011 From: Noriko Nakanishi <nakanisiba.kobegakuin.ac.jp> Subject: Perception and Impression of Non-native English E-mail this message to a friend Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 22.3255 This is a tentative summary of the questionnaire posted to the Query on Aug. 15th. http://linguistlist.org/pubs/sums/query-details.cfm? submissionid=4529201 I have been collecting the data from * Native speakers of English (L1 user) * Non-Native speakers of English / Japanese (L2 user) * University students learning English in Japan (FL learner) So far, I got responses from L1 users (n=30), L2 users (n=37), and FL learners (n=174). Some detailed results (yet tentative) have been sent to the participants who typed in their e-mail addresses in the questionnaire, and the following is a summary of the findings: -------------------------------------------------- (Part 1) * Contextual messages have influence on intelligibility in different degrees among L1 user / L2 user / FL learner groups. * Approximately half of the answers indicated participants' “guess work” when given the sentences with mispronounced words. (Part 2) The 19 questions were tentatively divided into four categories according to the types of interpersonal attraction, though the reliability analysis will be necessary after the data collection is completed. * FL learners showed significantly stronger preference for North American pronunciation to Japanized pronunciation than L1 and L2 users in all categories. * There was one particular category that all the three groups showed stronger preference for North American pronunciation than other categories. -------------------------------------------------- Some of the participants kindly pointed out that there was a mistake in a pronoun in Section 2. It was my careless mistake, but I found that we cannot change any part of the questionnaire once we start running the program. I would like to apologize for the confusion. All the results above are tentative, and further statistical analyses will be given once we gain enough number of the participants from “L1 user” and “L2 user” groups. We will be collecting the data till mid / end of September this year. If you have not responded to the questionnaire yet, please access the URL below and answer the questions, which will take 10-20 minutes. http://www.tm.kobegakuin.ac.jp/kyozai/ba/contents01/ Also, please forward this message to your friends. Thank you. Linguistic Field(s): Phonology                             Sociolinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 11-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.