Foreign Accent - The Phenomenon of Non-Native Speech

Informationen zum Autor Alene Moyer is Associate Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland. Klappentext In this fascinating account, Alene Moyer examines the social, psychological, educational and legal ramifications of sounding 'foreign'. Zusammenfassung To what extent do our accents determine the way we are perceived by others? Is a foreign accent inevitably associated with social stigma? In this fascinating account! Alene Moyer examines the social! psychological! educational and legal ramifications of sounding 'foreign'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The scope and relevance of accent; 2. Accent and age; 3. Accent and the individual; 4. Accent and society; 5. Accent and the law; 6. Accent and instruction; 7. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Alene Moyer, Alene (University of Maryland Moyer, Alene (University of Maryland) Moyer, Moyer Alene
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107558601
• ISBN: 978-1-107-55860-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, English, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, Sociolinguistics, Language teaching theory and methods, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Applied linguistics for ELT