Sensitivity to Language-Based Rejection in Intercultural Communication: The Role of Language Mindsets and Implications for Migrants' Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Autor/inn/en	Lou, Nigel Mantou; Noels, Kimberly A.
Titel	Sensitivity to Language-Based Rejection in Intercultural Communication: The Role of Language Mindsets and Implications for Migrants' Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 40 (2019) 3, S.478-505 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
Schlagwörter	Intercultural Communication; Acculturation; Language Attitudes; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Rejection (Psychology); Immigrants; Anxiety; Communicative Competence (Languages); Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Akkulturation; Sprachverhalten; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Ablehnung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Angst; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Kanada
Abstract	Recent research conceptualizes language mindsets as a 'lens' through which learners view language challenges as either deficits of aptitude (i.e. entity beliefs) or opportunities to improve (i.e. incremental beliefs). Extending this meaning-system approach in an intercultural context, we proposed that language mindsets influence migrants' experience of intercultural interaction and cultural adaptation through language-based rejection sensitivity (RS) (i.e. the tendency to anxiously expect rejection from native speakers due to a lack of language proficiency). Two studies of 292 English-as-a-second-language speakers in Canada demonstrated that those who held or were primed with entity beliefs (vs. incremental beliefs) reported stronger language-based RS, which in turn predicted more intergroup anxiety towards members of the target language community, less perceived connectedness with the host country, and worse cross-cultural adaptation. These effects persisted after controlling for perceived language competence and length of residence, thereby highlighting the unique importance of language mindsets in predicting intercultural communication and cross-cultural adaptation. Migrants' settlement programmes that promote incremental beliefs may thereby lessen concern about social rejection and reduce their anxiety when using a second language. (As Provided).
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