A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …

For the past two decades, there has been enormous growth in research on second
language (L2) pronunciation. Pronunciation is an essential aspect of the assessment of oral …

This article brings to the fore trends in second language (L2) pronunciation research,
teaching, and assessment by highlighting the ways in which pronunciation instructional …

The fundamental reason for this survey is to point out the challenges encountered by the
teachers, students, schools, and parents in facing and handling oral speech communication …

This Element reviews the key foundational concepts, beliefs, and practices underpinning
approaches to assessment in English Language Teaching. Exploring major concepts and …

Speaking is seen by language testers as the most difficult of the four language skills to
assess. Assessing speaking requires that we either observe a “live” oral performance or that …

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language
acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and …

Published in Language Learning in 1995, Munro and Derwing's* investigation of foreign
accent, comprehensibility, and intelligibility in second language (L2) speech instigated …

This study investigates the relationship between the accuracy of second language lexical
representations and perception, phonological short-term memory, inhibitory control …

Automatic second language (L2) speech fluency assessment has been one of the ultimate
goals of several projects aiming at designing Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training …