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Accent of One's Own: self-report perspective on accentedness in Czech pre-service EFL teachers

Publikace na Pedagogická fakulta |
2019

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Drawing on Bourdieu's theoretical framework, our proposed paper strives to characterise the structure of the linguistic habitus of our 256 informants from the specific perspective of their accent-related self-perception and language attitudes. For this purpose, self-report data obtained in a questionnaire form were scrutinised.

The analysed body of the data seems to indicate that the majority of our informants ascribe a clearly positive emotional value to their hitherto experience of one's own accentedness in an authentic communicative context. Furthermore, accented speech does not appear to be a cause for concern in half of the examined sample.

Thus, our results may signal the growing acceptance of non-native teacher identities. Consequently, the elementary premise that we based our preliminary research on and that regards the neutral (native) accents as norm-setting and evaluatively determining might be contested.