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Linguistic racism can cause complex negative emotions and mental health issues in individuals. This study investigates how linguistic racism affects Non-Native English Speakers (NNES) and Native English Speakers (NES) in higher education (students and faculties) with physiological signal-based methods and survey responses. Participants (N = 13) watched a video showing a new immigrant experiencing linguistic racism while their physiological signals were measured. Moreover, the participants self-reported their emotions before and after they watched the video. Results indicate that the video especially makes NNES participants scared and nervous, which is not observed in NES. The study also found acute physiological reactions in NNES during experiments. The findings encourage further research on the relationship between linguistic racism and NNES’s mental health, especially providing insights into how to support NNES in higher education.
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Zhang, L., Park, J.Y., Kwari, E.T. (2023). Exploring Emotional and Physiological Reactions to Linguistic Racism: A Case Study in Higher Education. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2023 Posters. HCII 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1832. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35989-7_67
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