Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1985

Keywords

Interlanguage, Native speaker attitutudes

Abstract

There are several recurrent themes in the study of native speaker attitudes toward inter­language. First among them treated in a recent review by Ludwig is comprehensibility, that is, the ease with which the native speaker can comprehend nonnative speech.' Research in the area of native speaker attitudes toward nonnative speech reviewed in Ludwig has shown that formal errors are not well related to comprehensibility of interlanguage. "Irritation" is also a topic of considerable interest. An assumption underlying the study of irritation is that even if nonnative speech is comprehensible, the form of the message may be associated with a negative affective response from the native speaker. Certain for­mal or mechanical errors may be considered more important than others by native speakers. The ranking of errors by comprehensibility, irritation or other criteria is referred to as an error hierarchy. An interesting, detailed example of an error hierarchy based on both comprehensibility and irritation may be found in an article by Chastain.

Publication Title

Hispania

Volume

68

Issue

1

First Page

160

Last Page

165

Required Publisher's Statement

Published by: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/341633

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Word processing--Foreign languages; Language and languages; Linguistics--Research

Genre/Form

articles

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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