How sociolinguistic factors shape children's subjective impressions of teacher quality.

ABSTRACT: When university students are asked to rate their instructors, their evaluations are often influenced by the demographic characteristics of the instructor-such as the instructor's race, gender, or language background. These influences can manifest in unfair systematic biases against particular groups of teachers and hamper movements to promote diversity in higher education. When and how do these biases develop? Here, we begin to address these questions by examining children's sociolinguistic biases against teachers who speak with different accents. To do this, we presented 5-year-old Canadian English-speaking children with pairs of adult talkers. Children were asked to select "who they'd like to be their teacher" then they rated "how good of a teacher" they thought each talker would be on a

SUBMITTER: Paquette-Smith M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9936436 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature