Foreign Accents and English as a Second Language

• Variety of native languages spoken in U.S.
• Factors involved in learning English phonology as a second language
• Spanish-influenced English
• Arabic-influenced English
• Chinese-influenced English
• French-influenced English
• Hindi-influenced English
• Japanese-influenced English

Objectives

• List the most frequent native languages spoken by limited English proficiency students
• Explain why second language learners speak English with an accent
• List phonetic and characteristics of Spanish-influenced, French-influenced, Chinese-influenced, Hindi-influenced, Arabic-influenced English, Japanese-influenced English

Resources

• Speech Accent Archive
• Second Language Phonology
• ASHA Accent Modification
• Phonemic Inventories for Several Languages
• Spanish accented English