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 …

We revisit, providing retrospective commentary on our original methods and findings. Using
what are now well-established assessment techniques, the study examined the …

This study compared five research‐based intelligibility measures as they were applied to six
varieties of English. The objective was to determine which approach to measuring …

Building up on Munro and Derwing, the current study set out to re-examine and generalize
the Functional Load (FL) principle (Brown, 1988) as a tool to identify a set of relatively crucial …

This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency
teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening …

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 …

Though frequent recourse has been made to the functional load (or FL) principle in
establishing priorities for L2 pronunciation teaching, it remains an under-theorized and …

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

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 …

Research in second language speech has often focused on listeners' accent judgment and
factors that affect their perception. However, the topic of listeners' application of specific …