The current rise in interactions among English speakers with different accents entails occasional difficulties in understanding unfamiliar English accents. This study attempted to propose a teaching technique using shadowing to listen to unfamiliar English accents. The participants were 96 Japanese university students. One group worked on shadowing assisted by script, one on shadowing only, while the control group only listened and did not engage in shadowing. Five speech samples, each read in a different English accent, were used. A 75‐item dictation test (with 25 items each for Chinese, Italian, and American accents) was administered as both a pre‐ and post‐test. The results showed that while only shadowing practice alone may not promote perceptual adaptation, when accompanied by a script, it enhances students’ perceptual adaptation.

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聆听全球英语：脚本辅助阴影

当前，使用不同口音的英语使用者之间的互动日益增加，在理解不熟悉的英语口音时有时会遇到困难。这项研究试图提出一种使用阴影来听不熟悉的英语口音的教学技术。参加者为96名日本大学生。一组在脚本的帮助下进行阴影处理，一组仅在阴影处理下进行，而对照组仅收听并且不参与阴影处理。使用了五个语音样本，每个样本使用不同的英语口音。在考试前和考试后均进行了75个项目的听写测试（每项25个项目分别包含中文，意大利和美国口音）。结果表明，虽然仅进行影子练习可能无法促进感知适应，但在配以剧本的同时，它可以增强学生的感知适应能力。