ERIC Number: EJ1484379
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 31
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
EISSN: EISSN-1467-9922
Available Date: 2024-11-04
Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self- and Other-Assessment
Language Learning, v75 n3 p832-862 2025
Research on second language (L2) pronunciation self-assessment reports a general misalignment between self- and other-assessment. This has been attributed to the object of self-assessment, the self-assessment task, the measures to which self-assessment is compared, and speakers' characteristics. Here, we examined self-assessment of a discrete phonological feature--sentence stress--by L2 English speakers as compared to the assessment of first language English listeners through a timed, forced-choice judgment task with low-pass filtered stimuli, which contained only suprasegmental cues. Additionally, we explored how individual differences among speakers predict self-assessment. Speakers generally overestimated their accuracy in sentence stress assignment in a pattern resembling the Dunning-Kruger effect despite the controlled nature of the task. Speakers with larger vocabulary size judged their sentence stress assignment as correct more often and showed greater overconfidence and miscalibration. Finally, the assessments of speakers with a background in applied linguistics and/or language teaching were more aligned with listeners' assessments.
Descriptors: Sentences, Pronunciation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Evaluation, Phonology, Suprasegmentals, Native Speakers, English Learners, Individual Differences, Predictor Variables, Accuracy, Language Patterns, Self Concept, Applied Linguistics
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Language: English
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Data File: URL: http://doi.org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/10.17605/OSF.IO/8Z739
Author Affiliations: 1University of Calgary; 2Concordia University; 3Federal University of Santa Catarina; 4University of Turku; 5Simon Fraser University; 6Charles Darwin University

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