The increasing use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) worldwide has brought attention to
tools that can assist English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in their journey to …

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

The current study presents two meta‐analyses to explore what underlies the assessment
and teaching of comprehensible and nativelike pronunciation among English‐as‐a‐Second …

Whereas many scholars have emphasized the relative importance of comprehensibility as
an ecologically valid goal for L2 speech training, testing, and development, eliciting …

This study investigated relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and
accentedness in the speech of L2 learners of Spanish who completed a prompted response …

The current study set out to examine which segmental and suprasegmental factors
discriminate different levels of global second language (L2) pronunciation proficiency. First …

Fluency, comprehensibility, and accentedness are considered important parameters of
interpreting quality but have rarely been studied systematically in training programs of …

Research has indicated that lexical richness is an important indicator of second language
(L2) proficiency. However, most research has examined written, cross-sectional English L2 …

Interest in second language (L2) speech comprehensibility, or listeners' perceived ease or
difficulty of understanding a given utterance, has seen continual growth since Munro and …

The relationship between second language (L2) comprehensibility and pragmatics is
explored in two experiments involving instruction of speech acts to learners enrolled in a …