ERIC Number: ED581852
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 14
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Do College Instructors Have Implicit Bias toward Latino-Accented English Speakers?
Na, Eunkyung
Commission for International Adult Education, Paper presented at the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) Commission for International Adult Education (CIAE) Annual Pre-Conference (65th, Albuquerque, NM, Nov 6-8, 2016)
The purpose of this study was to examine the implicit attitudes of college-level instructors toward Latino-accented English and the effects of gender, teaching experience, home language, race/ethnicity, and rank on those attitudes. The auditory Implicit Association Test (IAT) was used to measure the implicit accent preferences. Participants (N = 93) included college instructors at an urban university in Florida. In this study, instructors were defined as full-time and part-time faculty members and paid graduate assistants. Statistical analysis results suggested college instructors in this study exhibited some bias towards speakers of Latino-accented English. Gender, teaching experience, home language, race/ethnicity, and rank had no effect on implicit preference scores. Faculty, administrators, and students could use this study as a topic of discussion in faculty development, teaching assistant training, student services, diversity training, and hiring practices in higher education institutions. The discussions might help awareness of hidden-yet-present accent bias and prevent potential prejudice toward Latino-accented English speakers. Recommendations for further research were also provided. [For the full proceedings, see ED581791.]
Descriptors: College Faculty, Bias, Dialects, Pronunciation, English, Hispanic Americans, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences, Teaching Experience, Racial Differences, Academic Rank (Professional), Native Language, Urban Universities, Statistical Analysis, Preferences, Questionnaires, Regression (Statistics)
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
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