This study investigated the relationship among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and
accentedness in the speech of second language learners of Spanish of varying proficiency …

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 …

Fake news has trumped up attention across cultures from the United States Elections to the
Arab Spring. While political marketers have long used the language of fear and persuasion …

Engagement is critical to satisfaction and performance in a number of domains but is
challenging to measure and sustain. Thus, there is considerable interest in developing …

The goal of this study was to determine the overall effects of pronunciation instruction (PI) as
well as the sources and extent of variance in observed effects. Toward this end, a …

The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech
are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

Pronunciation instruction is still underemphasized in many language programs as well as in
teacher-training curricula despite reports of significant improvement from many studies …

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 …

This chapter provides an overview of three highly influential constructs in the pronunciation
literature, accent, intelligibility, and comprehensibility, to clarify how these terms are …