@ARTICLE{Szpyra-Kozłowska_Jolanta_The_2018,
 author={Szpyra-Kozłowska, Jolanta and Bryła-Cruz, Agnieszka},
 number={No 4},
 pages={478-496},
 journal={Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2018},
 publisher={Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski},
 abstract={The present study is the first attempt at examining the perception and evaluation of 10 internationally known political and religious leaders’ English pronunciation. 40 Polish students’ assessed their speech samples in terms of the degree of foreign accentedness, comprehensibility and acceptability. We examine whether the following factors affect the assessors’ judgements: their personal attitude to the speakers, the students’ level of English proficiency and the genetic proximity between between the speakers’ and the listeners’ L1s combined with the raters’ familiarity with foreign accents of English. It is demonstrated that the listeners’ attitude to the speakers has no impact on the ratings of the samples’ comprehensibility and accentedness, but plays an important role in their evaluations of acceptability. The participants’ level of English proficiency is crucial for their assessment of comprehensibility, but not accentedness and acceptability. Finally, the genetic proximity between the involved languages and the listeners’ familiarity with varieties of foreign-accented English are shown to be relevant for all the presented accent jugdements.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={The assessment of political and religious leaders’ nonnative English pronunciation by Polish learners},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109042/PDF/KN%204-18%202SZPYRA-KOZ%C5%81OWSKA,BRY%C5%81A-CRUZ.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/kn.2018.124998},
 keywords={foreign accent perception and assessment, attitudes to accents, politicians’ English pronunciation},
}