eprintid: 1525231
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datestamp: 2016-11-08 16:23:35
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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
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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   
 
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