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\nRachael Lindberg  \nConcordia University  \nPavel Trofimovich  \nConcordia University  \nAbstract  \nAccording to expectation violation theory, job applicants can be upgraded or downgraded during an interview when their accent does not match employers’ speech expectations. Focusing on the employment of second language French job candidates in Québec, this study explored this issue dynamically in terms of how expectations may impact the trajectory of interview evaluations. Participants included 60 Québec French raters and 6 female job candidates applying to a waitress or pizza cook position, presented through their resumes as either first (L1) or second (L2) language French speakers. Each speaker’s interview audios were presented to raters in expectancy-congruent and expectancy-incongruent scenarios. Raters first provided resume-based employability assessments, then two more evaluations throughout a typical sequence of interview questions. The congruent and incongruent scenarios revealed similar evaluation patterns, where the L2 French cook applicant’s employability improved after initially being downgraded. Implications are discussed regarding listeners’ readjustment of their perceptions following first-impression biases.  \nRésumé  \nSelon la théorie de la violation des attentes, les candidats peuvent être surclassés ou déclasséslorsque leur accent ne correspond pas aux attentes de l'employeur. Se focalisant sur l'emploide candidates français langue seconde (L2) au Québec, cette étude a exploré la façon dont les attentes peuvent influencer les évaluations d'entrevue. Les participants comprenaient 60 évaluateurs Québécois et 6 candidates postulant à un poste de serveuse ou de pizzaiolo, présentées par leurs CV comme locutrices natives ou L2 de français. Les évaluateurs ont écouté les entretiens dans des scénarios congruents et incongrus. Ils ont évalué l'employabilité des candidates d'abord sur des CV puis deux fois après des questions d'entretien. Les scénarios congruents et incongrus ont révélé des évaluations similaires, où l'employabilité de la candidate pizzaiolo français L2 s'est améliorée après avoir été initialement déclassée. Les implications sont discutées quant au réajustement des perceptions suite à des biais de première impression.  \nWhen Accent Does Not Match Expectations: A Dynamic Perspective of L2 Speaker Evaluations in a French Interview Context  \nWhen job applicants participate in an interview, there are many social, linguistic, and affective variables which can influence their perceived competence, subsequently impacting hiring decisions. For example, the presence of a nonstandard, regional, or second language (L2) accent can activate stereotypes, informing judgements of one’s personality and credibility (Dixon & Mahoney, 2004; Lambert et al., 1960), leading to lower employability evaluations (Rakić et al., 2011; Spence et al., 2022) . However, employers also frequently have access to background information about an applicant before the interview, leading to the formation of certain expectations, and these expectations may have evaluative consequences if the applicant’s speech during the interview is incongruent with them. This study focused on the phenomenon of expectancy violations (i.e., when there is amismatch between stereotype-based social expectations and reality, such as between how a listener imagines a job candidate to look and sound and how the candidate actually looks and sounds) by examining whether cues to L2-speaking applicants ’ accent provided through their resume elicit expectations that impact subsequent employability evaluations of those candidates in the context of a mock job interview.  \nBackground Literature  \nAs widely studied in research about language attitudes, individuals tend to place others into social categories based on various biases or stereotypes, which impacts","cbCaijQZfZrPjgkw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijQZfZrPjgkw","pdf",452107,31,"English","# Abstract\n# Background Literature\n## Language attitudes and stereotype-driven impressions\n## Accent-related employability judgments\n## Expectation violation and resume-based cues","[{\"question\":\"How does expectancy violation theory relate to accent-based evaluations in interviews?\",\"answer\":\"It explains how interviewers can upgrade or downgrade applicants when an accent does not match employers’ speech expectations formed before the interview.\"},{\"question\":\"What design did the study use to test L2 accent effects?\",\"answer\":\"Six female candidates were presented through resumes indicating L1 or L2 French, then their interview audios were played to raters under expectancy-congruent and expectancy-incongruent scenarios.\"},{\"question\":\"What pattern of employability evaluations did the congruent and incongruent scenarios show?\",\"answer\":\"Both scenarios produced similar trajectories, where an L2 French pizza cook applicant’s employability improved after being initially downgraded.\"}]","When Accent Does Not Match Expectations - A Dynamic Perspective of L2 Speaker Evaluations in a French Interview Context | PDF",1792082943,78]