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ERIC ED384932: Effects of Language and Race on Undergraduates' Perceptions of International Instructors: Further Studies of Language and Attitude in Higher Education.

Predicating that undergraduate students' judgments of teaching ability are based on perceptions of the instructor's linguistic nonstandardness rather than on actual (or manipulated) language patterns, a study examined differences among students' perceptions of non-native English-speaking instructors (NNSI). Photographs of either a Chinese, a Nigerian, or a Dutch student (of similar body type, ethnically typical, and similarly posed) were presented together with a script that explicitly identified the ethnicity of the instructors. A native Dutch speaker produced two versions (moderate accent an…

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