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Dual dimension naming speech and language dominance ratings by bilingual Hispanic adults
Bilingual Research Journal (2005)
  • Henriette W. Langdon, San Jose State University
Abstract

Speech-language pathology (SLP) training programs are the initial gateway for nonnative speakers of English to join the SLP profession. An anonymous web-based survey in New York State examined policies and practices implemented when SLP students have foreign accents in English or in other languages. Responses were elicited from 530 students and 28 clinic and program directors. Few policies delineated criteria for determining how native like or intelligible students’ speech needed to be for them to work effectively or for determining when accent modification was required. Students with foreign accents in English were asked more often to undergo accent modification than were students with foreign accents in Spanish or other languages. Strategies for practices regarding SLP students with accents are proposed.

Publication Date
January, 2005
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Citation Information
Henriette W. Langdon. "Dual dimension naming speech and language dominance ratings by bilingual Hispanic adults" Bilingual Research Journal Vol. 29 Iss. 2 (2005)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/henriette_langdon/7/