Native or Non-Native-Speaking Teaching for L2 Pronunciation Teaching?--An Investigation on Their Teaching Effect and Students' Preferences

Autor/inn/en	Li, Ying; Zhang, Gouzhi
Titel	Native or Non-Native-Speaking Teaching for L2 Pronunciation Teaching?--An Investigation on Their Teaching Effect and Students' Preferences
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 9 (2016) 12, S.89-97 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Nonmajors; Asians; Language Teachers; Native Speakers; Pronunciation Instruction; Undergraduate Students; Preferences; Student Attitudes; Teacher Characteristics; Pretests Posttests; Language Tests; Questionnaires; Foreign Countries; Evaluators; Statistical Analysis; Qualitative Research; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Muttersprachler; Ausspracheübung; Schülerverhalten; Language test; Sprachtest; Fragebogen; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	This study investigated L2 leaners' preferences between native-speaking teachers (NST) and non-native-speaking teachers (NNST) as their English pronunciation teacher, and examined the participants' accentedness and comprehensibility in L2-English pronunciation after being taught by a NST and a NNST. The participants were 30 undergraduates who were doing non-English majors at a university in China. They went through 4-month English pronunciation classes. In the first 2 months, they were taught by a NST. From the 3rd to the 4th month, they were taught by a NNST. Their accentedness and comprehensibility of spoken English were tested at the beginning of the programme (pre-test), at the end of the 2nd month (middle test), and at the end of the 4th month (post-test). Information on their evaluation of the NST and NNST as a pronunciation teacher was collected with questionnaires at the end of the experiment. According to the results, (1) compared with that in pre-test, the participants' accentedness and comprehensibility both improved slightly in middle test; (2) compared with that in middle test, the participants received significant improvement both in comprehensibility and accentedness; (3) the majority of the participants prefer a NST to a NNST to be their English pronunciation teacher. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01