Thao-Nguyen Nina Le
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thao-Nguyen Nina Le |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thao-Nguyen Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Le |
| SIGNATURE | LE T N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8728-4178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond the resume
Purpose High-stakes decision-makers, including human resource (HR) professionals, often exhibit accent biases against second language speakers in professional evaluations. We extend this work by investigating how HR students evaluate simulated job interview performances in English by first and second language speakers of English. Design/methodology/approach Eighty HR students from Calgary and Montreal evaluated the employability of first language…
Interpersonal liking, cultural belonging, and heritage language
Metaperceptions (or the impressions people believe to make on others) are a potential source of misconception in conversations involving members of the same ethnic community. We investigated whether speakers’ tendency to underestimate how they are perceived by others has consequences for future interaction. In this quantitative study, we paired 46 previously unacquainted speakers of Vietnamese as a heritage language (23 second-generation speakers…
What do students in human resource management know about accent bias
For many second language (L2) speakers, including immigrants, speaking with an L2 accent can be a source of unfair or biased treatment in many workplace contexts. However, apart from research on language learners, there is currently little knowledge as to what the general public, and especially members of professional communities, know about accent and accent bias. Our goal in this study was to examine the intuitive understanding of accent and ac…
I Don't Think You like Me
People often think about how they are perceived by others, but their perceptions (described as metaperceptions) are frequently off-target. Speakers communicating in their first language demonstrate a robust phenomenon, called the liking gap, where they consistently underestimate how much they are liked by their interlocutors. We extended this research to second language (L2) speakers to determine whether they demonstrate a similar negative bias a…
I Don't Think You like Me
People often think about how they are perceived by others, but their perceptions (described as metaperceptions) are frequently off-target. Speakers communicating in their first language demonstrate a robust phenomenon, called the liking gap, where they consistently underestimate how much they are liked by their interlocutors. We extended this research to second language (L2) speakers to determine whether they demonstrate a similar negative bias a…
I Don't Think You like Me
People often think about how they are perceived by others, but their perceptions (described as metaperceptions) are frequently off-target. Speakers communicating in their first language demonstrate a robust phenomenon, called the liking gap, where they consistently underestimate how much they are liked by their interlocutors. We extended this research to second language (L2) speakers to determine whether they demonstrate a similar negative bias a…
Interpersonal liking, cultural belonging, and heritage language
Metaperceptions (or the impressions people believe to make on others) are a potential source of misconception in conversations involving members of the same ethnic community. We investigated whether speakers’ tendency to underestimate how they are perceived by others has consequences for future interaction. In this quantitative study, we paired 46 previously unacquainted speakers of Vietnamese as a heritage language (23 second-generation speakers…
What do students in human resource management know about accent bias
For many second language (L2) speakers, including immigrants, speaking with an L2 accent can be a source of unfair or biased treatment in many workplace contexts. However, apart from research on language learners, there is currently little knowledge as to what the general public, and especially members of professional communities, know about accent and accent bias. Our goal in this study was to examine the intuitive understanding of accent and ac…
Beyond the resume
Purpose High-stakes decision-makers, including human resource (HR) professionals, often exhibit accent biases against second language speakers in professional evaluations. We extend this work by investigating how HR students evaluate simulated job interview performances in English by first and second language speakers of English. Design/methodology/approach Eighty HR students from Calgary and Montreal evaluated the employability of first language…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Interpersonal communication (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Active listening (1 work)