September 10, 2025TESOL QuarterlyOpen Access

Fostering Global Englishes Listeners: Addressing Understanding and Attitudes at a Swedish Upper‐Secondary School

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Listening training significantly improved intelligibility and comprehensibility for diverse accents, and language-focused accent attitudes improved.
Activities engaged 27 students in an intermediate English class over 3 weeks, enhancing their positive images of Global Englishes speakers.
Intervention included high-variability training and aimed to expand learners' perceptual repertoire with various accents.
Findings highlight that while understanding and attitudes improved, entrenched ideology-related accent attitudes remained unchanged.

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Intervention improves understanding and attitudes towards diverse accents in a Swedish high school.

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