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craigdav86
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 Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:20 pm Post subject: EFL teachers needed to evaluate accents |
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Hi Guys,
I am conducting a survey as part of an MA thesis. I am targeting EFL teachers and would be very grateful for your help!
The questionnaire requires rating accents on how you perceive them. There are four parts and they all relate to EFL.
The questionnaire should be completed as quickly as possible and hopefully you will get some enjoyment out of it.
It is accessible through:
https://accentsandattitudes.wordpress.com/
Thank you all in advance! |
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JN
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I got some weird warnings when I clicked on the links to this survey. Not sure if it has to do with this post, but just thought I'd mention it. Needless to say, I didn't fill out any of the survey. |
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rtm
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| JN wrote: |
| I got some weird warnings when I clicked on the links to this survey. Not sure if it has to do with this post, but just thought I'd mention it. Needless to say, I didn't fill out any of the survey. |
Same here. I got an advertisement, then a warning saying that the site I was being redirected to was unsafe, and then when I went back to the survey, it said there was an error. |
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santi84
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| It worked fine for me. But I don't teach EFL, I teach ESL, do you care or do you prefer others to take the survey? I felt I was being asked to choose between slow Americans or the British royal family. |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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'Slow' in what sense, santi;-) Are you implying we're all a bit short of a full load?  |
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nomad soul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| santi84 wrote: |
| I felt I was being asked to choose between slow Americans or the British royal family. |
As if there aren't any slow Canadians! But I admit that I was really hoping to hear a brash New York or "Joisey" accent among the samples.
I was able to get into the survey using a different browser. That said, the assessment seems way more relevant for EFL learners than teachers. I had no opinion/bias either way with the accents presented because they wouldn't have any impact on me as a teacher. Plus, in EFL, it's not unusual for our teaching colleagues to be a mix of nationalities, including those who aren't English L1s yet do just fine teaching EFL.
Anyway, since the OP has targeted EFL instructors, rather than stating that the survey requires participants to rate native speakers' accents based on personal perceptions, it would have been nice if he had included his goal or objectives in terms of what he hopes to accomplish with the data --- how it is to be used. And obviously, there's the importance of having several testers do a trial run on online surveys to check for bugs before such assessments get put out to the public. My 2-cents' worth. |
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santi84
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Sorry! I mean that I perceived the dialogue for the non-Brit accents was purposely dragged out. I am always weary of how research questions are constructed.
In response to your comments that Canadians are slow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEW5mh7iAI |
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nomad soul
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