Reducing accent discrimination through shared group identity: Dutch listener’s perceptions of Spanish English speakers.
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2025-08-13
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With English being the main language in many international organisations, an increasing number of non-native speakers use it daily. However, they are often evaluated negatively on traits such as credibility, status, likeability, competence and more. This study explores whether emphasising a shared group identity, as non-native English speakers, can reduce bias towards non-native accented English-speakers. The study has a 2 (shared group identity: shared vs no intervention) * 2 (Accent strength: slight vs strong) experimental between-subject design. Thirty participants were assigned to each condition. Findings indicate that listeners evaluated speakers with a strong accent more negatively on comprehensibility, status and dynamism than speakers with a slight accent. The intervention was not successful and nor was there an interaction between accent strength and the shared group identity intervention. These findings suggest that accent strength influenced evaluations of listeners. However, the intervention in its current form, a text, was not successful in reducing negative evaluations.
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