The influence of ethnicity and language variation on undergraduates' evaluations of Dutch-speaking instructors in Belgium: A contextualized speaker evaluation experiment (original) (raw)

Language & Communication, 2022

Abstract

This study reports on a contextualized speaker evaluation experiment exploring the effects of language variation (standard vs. colloquial), ethnic identity (Flemish vs. Maghrebi) and wearing a headscarf on students' evaluation of a female university instructor in Flanders. 314 participants evaluated a single lecture of the instructor on professionalism, comprehensibility, authority, standardness, social attractiveness and physical attractiveness. The results suggest that when measured indirectly, colloquial Dutch is no less acceptable than Standard Dutch in higher education. No general downgrading of the Maghrebi identity was observed. When wearing a headscarf, the standard speaking Maghrebi instructor was upgraded for professionalism.

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