Effects of second language pronunciation teaching revisited: A proposed measurement framework and meta‐analysis

K Saito, L Plonsky - Language Learning, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a new framework for conceptualizing measures of instructed second language
(L2) pronunciation performance according to three sets of parameters:(a) the constructs …

The effect of speaker proficiency on intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish: A conceptual replication and extension of Munro and Derwing …

A Huensch, C Nagle - Language Learning, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated the relationship among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and
accentedness in the speech of second language learners of Spanish of varying proficiency …

Motivation, emotion, learning experience, and second language comprehensibility development in classroom settings: A cross‐sectional and longitudinal study

K Saito, JM Dewaele, M Abe, Y In'nami - Language Learning, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents a cross‐sectional and longitudinal analysis of how 108 high school
students in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms enhanced the comprehensibility …

Revisiting the intelligibility and nativeness principles

J Levis - Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
Abstract named two conflicting approaches to pronunciation teaching, the Nativeness
Principle and the Intelligibility Principle. This paper revisits those two principles to argue for …

English pronunciation teaching and research

MC Pennington, P Rogerson-Revell - Research and Practice in Applied …, 2019 - Springer
This book is the product of a collaboration between two pronunciation specialists, one
educated and based in the United Kingdom (Rogerson-Revell) and one in the United States …

What characterizes comprehensible and native‐like pronunciation among English‐as‐a‐second‐language speakers? Meta‐analyses of phonological, rater, and …

K Saito - Tesol Quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The relationship between utterance and perceived fluency: A meta‐analysis of correlational studies

S Suzuki, J Kormos, T Uchihara - The Modern Language …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Listener‐based judgements of fluency play an important role in second language (L2)
communication contexts and in L2 assessment. Accordingly, our meta‐analysis examined …

Second language speech production: Investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels

K Saito, P Trofimovich, T Isaacs - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2016 - cambridge.org
The current project aimed to investigate the potentially different linguistic correlates of
comprehensibility (ie, ease of understanding) and accentedness (ie, linguistic …

Does a speaking task affect second language comprehensibility?

D Crowther, P Trofimovich, T Isaacs… - The Modern Language …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The current study investigated task effects on listener perception of second language (L2)
comprehensibility (ease of understanding). Sixty university‐level adult speakers of English …

Using shadowing with mobile technology to improve L2 pronunciation

JA Foote, K McDonough - Journal of Second Language …, 2017 - jbe-platform.com
Shadowing has been demonstrated to improve various aspects of second language
learners' pronunciation but few studies have investigated whether these changes impact …