Reexamining L2 accent: How much can personality explain?

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Autor(a) principal: Zárate-Sández, Germán
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Ilha do Desterro
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2017v70n3p227
Resumo: Previous studies have shown that learners’ individual differences (e.g., motivation, age) can impact second language learners’ pronunciation. This study focused on one individual difference that has received relatively little attention, namely personality, and sought to determine to what extent personality accounts for learners’ L2 accent during quasispontaneous and unplanned speech. Fifty-one English-speaking learners of Spanish performed a speaking task that was scored for degree of L2 accentedness. Results revealed that personality explained a considerable portion of the variance, and that extraversion and neuroticism were significant predictors of L2 accent. 
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spelling Reexamining L2 accent: How much can personality explain?Reexaminando o sotaque em L2: quanto pode ser explicado pela personalidade?Previous studies have shown that learners’ individual differences (e.g., motivation, age) can impact second language learners’ pronunciation. This study focused on one individual difference that has received relatively little attention, namely personality, and sought to determine to what extent personality accounts for learners’ L2 accent during quasispontaneous and unplanned speech. Fifty-one English-speaking learners of Spanish performed a speaking task that was scored for degree of L2 accentedness. Results revealed that personality explained a considerable portion of the variance, and that extraversion and neuroticism were significant predictors of L2 accent. Estudos anteriores mostraram que as diferenças individuais dos alunos (por exemplo, motivação, idade) podem afetar a pronunciação dos alunos da segunda língua. Este estudo centrou-se em uma diferença individual que recebeu relativamente pouca atenção, ou seja, a personalidade, e procurou determinar até que ponto a personalidade explica o sotaque na L2 dos aprendentes durante a fala quasi-oral e não planejada. Cinquenta e um estudantes de língua inglesa de espanhol realizaram uma tarefa de fala que foi pontuada pelo grau de acentuação na língua estrangeira. Os resultados revelaram que a personalidade explicou uma parte considerável da variância, e essa extraversão e neuroticismo foram preditores significativos do sotaque em língua estrangeira.UFSC2017-09-22info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2017v70n3p22710.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n3p227Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies; Vol. 70 No. 3 (2017); 227-244Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies; v. 70 n. 3 (2017); 227-2442175-80260101-4846reponame:Ilha do Desterroinstname:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)instacron:UFSCenghttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2017v70n3p227/35020Copyright (c) 2017 Germán Zárate-Sándezinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessZárate-Sández, Germán2017-10-02T13:22:58Zoai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/50364Revistahttp://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterroPUBhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/oaiilha@cce.ufsc.br||corseuil@cce.ufsc.br||ilhadodesterro@gmail.com2175-80260101-4846opendoar:2017-10-02T13:22:58Ilha do Desterro - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)false
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Reexaminando o sotaque em L2: quanto pode ser explicado pela personalidade?
title Reexamining L2 accent: How much can personality explain?
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Zárate-Sández, Germán
title_short Reexamining L2 accent: How much can personality explain?
title_full Reexamining L2 accent: How much can personality explain?
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description Previous studies have shown that learners’ individual differences (e.g., motivation, age) can impact second language learners’ pronunciation. This study focused on one individual difference that has received relatively little attention, namely personality, and sought to determine to what extent personality accounts for learners’ L2 accent during quasispontaneous and unplanned speech. Fifty-one English-speaking learners of Spanish performed a speaking task that was scored for degree of L2 accentedness. Results revealed that personality explained a considerable portion of the variance, and that extraversion and neuroticism were significant predictors of L2 accent. 
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