Purpose High-stakes decision-makers, including human resource (HR) professionals, often
exhibit accent biases against second language speakers in professional evaluations. We …

English has become an international language (EIL) as speakers around the world use it as
a universal means of communication. Accordingly, scholars have investigated different …

Languages and accents build understanding and relationships with other people. Therefore,
understanding individual attitudes could contribute to more effective second language …

Notwithstanding a body of research examining the way names are associated with the
perception and treatment of individuals across social contexts, scant attention has been paid …

Previous research found that accents cause the listener to exhibit prejudice toward the
speaker. The present study tested whether the familiarity of the listener and speaker …

Despite the importance that learners must place on using prosody appropriately in EIL
interaction, pragmatic functions of prosody have been largely disregarded in teaching …

There has been an ongoing act of social discrimination in which individuals' language use is
misjudged and misunderstood by virtue of listeners' stereotypes of speakers' social …