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2023 - Volume 6 - Number 1

12-year-old Mexican English Learners’ Listening Perceptions: Differences Between American Accent or Mexican Accent

Enhya Mylevva De León Zamarripa
University of Guanajuato, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2023, 6(1), 37-44 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0601.05037d
Received: 10 December 2022 ▪ Revised: 19 April 2023 ▪ Accepted: 26 June 2023

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Learning about what English learners think about the different accents while speaking English is essential to understand their reactions and ideas towards the use of the Mexican accent while speaking English. By presenting two different audios and asking the participants their perceptions about those, the research investigates what two 12-year-olds think about the use of the Mexican accent.

KEY WORDS: native accent, foreign accent.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Enhya Mylevva De León Zamarripa, University of Guanajuato, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO.

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