Rationale and design of a study of foreign accented academic English

Dan Frost (1) , Alice Henderson (1)

1 LIDILEM - LInguistique et DIdactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelles

This chapter explores the intersection of English Medium Instruction (EMI) and Foreign-Accented Speech (FAS), particularly in French higher education, while outlining the developmental phases of the nascent IP-CAFES research project. Pertinent research into cognitive load, accentedness, and prosody is summarised before we describe the creation of a specialised corpus and an experimental protocol using content from that corpus. Pedagogical implications are also addressed, for both speaker and listener training.

Keywords: accent perception tests; comprehensibility; English Medium Instruction; foreign-accented speech; interphonology; prosody; suprasegmental feature

Domains: Education; Linguistics

Dan Frost, Alice Henderson. Rationale and design of a study of foreign accented academic English. Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova; Alice Henderson; Jonás Fouz-González. English Pronunciation Instruction. Research-based insights, John Benjamins, pp.197-222, 2021, English Pronunciation Instruction. Research-based insights, 9789027259073. ⟨hal-03542906⟩