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 …

The effectiveness of second language pronunciation instruction: A meta-analysis

J Lee, J Jang, L Plonsky - Applied Linguistics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
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 …

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 …

Using listener judgments to investigate linguistic influences on L2 comprehensibility and accentedness: A validation and generalization study

K Saito, P Trofimovich, T Isaacs - Applied Linguistics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The current study investigated linguistic influences on comprehensibility (ease of
understanding) and accentedness (linguistic nativelikeness) in second language (L2) …

Deconstructing comprehensibility: Identifying the linguistic influences on listeners' L2 comprehensibility ratings

T Isaacs, P Trofimovich - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012 - cambridge.org
Comprehensibility, a major concept in second language (L2) pronunciation research that
denotes listeners' perceptions of how easily they understand L2 speech, is central to …

Fluency in native and nonnative English speech

S Götz - 2013 - torrossa.com
Native speakers of a language, it seems, can fill time with talk easily, speak smoothly,
appropriately, correctly, with ease and effortlessness. But it appears extremely difficult to …

Disentangling accent from comprehensibility

P Trofimovich, T Isaacs - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2012 - cambridge.org
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 …

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 …

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 …