eprintid: 1525231 rev_number: 32 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/52/52/31 datestamp: 2016-11-08 16:23:35 lastmod: 2021-09-26 22:49:40 status_changed: 2016-11-10 10:18:03 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Trofimovich, P creators_name: Isaacs, T creators_name: Kennedy, S creators_name: Saito, K creators_name: Crowther, D title: Flawed self-assessment: Investigating self-and other-perception of second language speech ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J77 note: This article has been published in a revised form in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000832. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © 2014 Cambridge University Press. abstract: This study targeted the relationship between self-and other-assessment of accentedness and comprehensibility in second language (L2) speech, extending prior social and cognitive research documenting weak or non-existing links between people's self-assessment and objective measures of performance. Results of two experiments (N = 134) revealed mostly inaccurate self-assessment: speakers at the low end of the accentedness and comprehensibility scales overestimated their performance; speakers at the high end of each scale underestimated it. For both accent and comprehensibility, discrepancies in self-versus other-assessment were associated with listener-rated measures of phonological accuracy and temporal fluency but not with listener-rated measures of lexical appropriateness and richness, grammatical accuracy and complexity, or discourse structure. Findings suggest that inaccurate self-assessment is linked to the inherent complexity of L2 perception and production as cognitive skills and point to several ways of helping L2 speakers align or calibrate their self-assessment with their actual performance. date: 2016-01 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000832 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1189741 doi: 10.1017/S1366728914000832 lyricists_name: Isaacs, Talia lyricists_name: Saito, Kazuya lyricists_id: TISAA83 lyricists_id: KSAIT59 actors_name: Isaacs, Talia actors_id: TISAA83 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Bilingualism volume: 19 number: 1 pagerange: 122-140 issn: 1469-1841 citation: Trofimovich, P; Isaacs, T; Kennedy, S; Saito, K; Crowther, D; (2016) Flawed self-assessment: Investigating self-and other-perception of second language speech. Bilingualism , 19 (1) pp. 122-140. 10.1017/S1366728914000832 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000832>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1525231/1/Isaacs_Trofimovich%20et%20al%202016.pdf