Resumen de How Do L2 Learners Perceive their Own Speech?: Investigating Perceptions of Speaking Task Performance
Mireia Ortega, Joan Carles Mora, Cristina Aliaga García, Ingrid Mora Plaza
L2 speech comprehensibility and accentedness have been habitually/generally assessed by asking native or non-native listeners (less frequently) to rate speech samples. Fewer studies have examined non-native speakers' evaluations of their own speech. The present study investigates the extent to which L2 learners’ assessments matched the ratings of native and nonnative listeners and explores L2 learners' own perception of task performance. L2 speech samples were elicited from seventy-five learners of English performing an oral narrative. They were asked to evaluate their own performance on the task by means of a questionnaire and to self-assess their own speech on nine-point scales for comprehensibility and accentedness. Nonnative (N=30) and native English (N=7) listeners evaluated the speech samples for the same dimensions. The results indicate that the learners’ self-ratings were moderately related to the listeners’ ratings for comprehensibility, and not related for accentedness. No strong relationship was found between learners’ self-assessments and their perception of task performance.
