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Delamere, Trish – System, 1996
Reports on a study investigating how Americans respond to English as a Second Language (ESL) speech depending on the non-native speaker's accent and whether there were errors in the ESL speech. Findings indicate that Americans exhibit different cultural prejudices towards different foreign speakers depending on the accent of the speakers. (50…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Dialects, English (Second Language)