Teaching Native Speakers to Listen to Foreign-accented Speech

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Learners' Ethnic Group Affiliation and L2 Pronunciation Accuracy: A Sociolinguistic Investigation (2005, background): “Finally, although the goal of teaching is to assist learners in attaining the highest level of pronunciation accuracy possible, the drive to do so should not give the message that accented speech is inferior; tolerance toward such speech should be practised in the classroom ( Derwing, Rossiter, & Mu”
The Effectiveness of L2 Pronunciation Instruction: A Narrative Review (2015, background): “In immigrant situations, native speakers of the L2 can be helped to become better listeners as well (Derwing et al. 2002; Kang and Rubin 2012).”
English Pronunciation and Fluency Development in Mandarin and Slavic Speakers. (2006, background): “Derwing et al. (2002b) found that native listeners confessed to ‘‘zoning out’’ when they heard someone speak with a foreign accent.”
A Longitudinal Study of ESL Learners' Fluency and Comprehensibility Development. (2007, background): “Even when Canadian-born individuals do not harbour negative attitudes towards visible minority immigrants, they may lack confidence in their own ability to interact successfully with L2 learners (Derwing et al. 2002) and thus avoid conversations with newcomers.”