Name: _____

The table below outlines several areas that may be most essential to your evaluation of someone's speech in German. Please consider the items below, then rank your top 5 most important if possible (1 = most important, etc.). Feel free to add or define any factors according to your own judgment:

Top 5 (ranked):

• (1) Do your considerations vary according to whether the context is formal or instructional as opposed to natural conversation?

• (2) How do you usually respond to speakers with strong foreign accents? (accommodating speech behaviors such as slowing down, listening more intently; forming judgments about the speaker's language ability or other qualities...)

• (3) Do you teach German or have you ever? If so, for how many years and at what level (high school, college, beginners, intermediate, etc):

  • (i) Do you favor a particular teaching approach?

  • (ii) As a teacher, what kinds of error are you most likely to correct ?

• (4) Have you yourself ever received explicit instruction on pronunciation in either your native language or in foreign languages, for example, phonetics drills, stress and intonation practice, a course on phonology, etc?