Perceptions of World English Varieties by Chinese EFL Students: Effects of Average Ethnic Faces and Speaker Gender

Martín Tévar, Jesús

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Perceptions of World English Varieties by Chinese EFL Students: Effects of Average Ethnic Faces and Speaker Gender

dc.contributor.author	Martín Tévar, Jesús
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-07T09:28:46Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-07T09:28:46Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	The objectives of this study are to elicit perceptions that Chinese users of English have towards a selection of world English varieties; to determine the effects of speaker gender and visual primes (ethnic faces) on perceptions; and also to reveal how these two factors interact with each other. In the present experiment, 278 respondents were exposed to eight world English varieties. Each accent sample had a female and a male voice version. Chinese students of English were exposed to these recordings, with the presence and absence of average ethnic faces as visual stimuli during the experiment, and requested to complete a questionnaire to reflect on their impressions by means of Likert scales. The results showed a preference for inner circle monolingual standards, and a rejection of outer circle Englishes (for the circles of English classification, see Kachru, 2006). Results also showed a positive perception of respondents towards their own Chinese accent. Ethnic faces visual prime and speaker gender factors, as well as their interaction, also proved to have significant influences on the results. Respondents rated accents significantly more positively when accompanied by ethnic faces.	es
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dc.format.extent	27	es
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of English Studies, Vol. 20 (3), 2020	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.393891
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/100444
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/393891/298311	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Accent perceptions	es
dc.subject	World English varieties	es
dc.subject	Gender effects	es
dc.subject	Visual prime effects	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguas	es
dc.title	Perceptions of World English Varieties by Chinese EFL Students: Effects of Average Ethnic Faces and Speaker Gender	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es