アジア人英語アクセントに対する態度 : アングロ系アメリカ人大学生に対する調査から

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This study investigated Anglo-American college students' attitudes toward Japanese-, Chinese-, and Indian-accented English. American and Australian English accents were included for comparison purposes. Participants heard the speech samples of the accents and were asked to evaluate aspects of the accent such as clarity and fluency. They were also asked their impressions of the speakers' countries with the exception of the United States. The participants were asked to describe the four countries by using five adjectives. The findings indicated that the participants rated the native speakers' accents generally more favorably than the Asian speakers'. Furthermore, the participants had positive stereotypes of Japan and Australia; on the other hand, national stereotypes of China and India were mostly negative. We also found the attitudes toward accents were partly related to the participants' stereotypes of the Asian countries.