This study explores university students' attitudes regarding the potential of artificial
intelligence (AI)-assisted mobile applications (apps) to support the development of speaking …

During the last 20 years, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies has played an important role in
advancing research on critical applied linguistics. Although the level of scholarly interest in …

The assessment of second language (L2) listening has received much attention. To
understand the state-of-the-art research on L2 listening assessment, a total of 87 studies …

With the ascendency of English as a global lingua franca, a clearer understanding of what
constitutes intelligible speech is needed. However, research systematically investigating the …

If extraneous information leads listeners to biased judgements, then their speech
perceptions are likely to manifest distortion in that direction. This phenomenon is known as …

Scholars have argued for the inclusion of different spoken varieties of English in high-stakes
listening tests to better represent the global use of English. However, doing so may …

This study aimed to answer an ongoing validity question related to the use of nonstandard
English accents in international tests of English proficiency and associated issues of test …

In his philosophical novel, Thus spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche (1883–85), famously
wrote,'God is dead,'signifying that God is no longer credible as an absolute moral compass …

This study investigated the relationship among informal digital learning of English (IDLE)
practice, a high-stakes English test, English productive skills, and perceptions of English as …

This controlled experimental study investigated the interaction of variables associated with
rating the pronunciation component of high-stakes English-language-speaking tests such as …