"En Français" or in English? Examining Perceived Social Roles of International Students in Response to Their French and English Speech

Autor/inn/en	Tekin, Oguzhan; Trofimovich, Pavel
Titel	"En Français" or in English? Examining Perceived Social Roles of International Students in Response to Their French and English Speech
Quelle	In: Canadian Modern Language Review, 79 (2023) 3, S.204-227 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0008-4506
DOI	10.3138/cmlr-2022-0037
Schlagwörter	French; Second Language Learning; Language Usage; Language Attitudes; Foreign Students; Student Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Multilingualism; Social Isolation; Student Adjustment; Peer Relationship; Cultural Differences; Ethnicity; Religious Factors; Student Role; Audio Equipment; Intelligibility; Pronunciation; Help Seeking; Speech Communication; Social Integration; Social Capital; Language Role; College Students; Evaluators; Speech Acts; Sociolinguistics; Correlation; English (Second Language); Canada (Montreal) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Französisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Soziale Isolation; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Peer-Beziehungen; Kultureller Unterschied; Ethnizität; Audio-CD; Aussprache; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Soziale Integration; Sozialkapital; Collegestudent; Sprechakt; Soziolinguistik; Korrelation; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache
Abstract	Canada's growing population of international students brings ethnolinguistic diversity and socioeconomic benefits to their host communities. However, students often experience social exclusion and lack of belonging, reporting little communication with local community members for many cultural, ethnic, and religious reasons. The present study, conducted in Montreal, investigated the role of international students' second language speech in local community members' perception of the social roles that students can assume in a host society (e.g., friend, neighbour, colleague). Four English- and French-speaking international students' recordings were presented to 38 francophones, all non-student residents of Montreal, who evaluated the students' comprehensibility and accentedness and assessed how acceptable these students were in various social roles (e.g., friend, neighbour, colleague) in two languages (French vs. English) and in two situations (making a request vs. making a potentially controversial statement). The students' ratings were greater when they spoke French than English (regardless of speech content) and when they requested help than when they expressed a controversial statement (regardless of language). Social ratings were generally associated with comprehensibility, not accentedness, where more comprehensible speech was linked to greater perceived acceptability. Findings highlight the importance of sociolinguistic context and language in local residents' judgments of international students' social roles. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01