Recognition of incipient change in the status of English as an international language has
yielded a small but growing area of research addressing nonnative speaker to nonnative …

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 …

Singapore English is a nativised variety of English, which comes in essentially two forms:
Standard Singapore English and Colloquial Singapore English. This article describes the …

This series is based on the idea that there is a need for studies that break barriers. It is
dedicated to innovative studies of language use and language learning in educational …

An English lingua franca seems to be emerging in the ten ASEAN countries, and this paper
investigates features of the pronunciation of this lingua franca. Twenty speakers, two from …

This paper, through the employment of a verbal‐guise study and techniques incorporated
from perceptual dialectology, investigated the attitudes of 558 Japanese university students …

Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often
remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of required phonetic and phonological …

Interest in pronunciation learning and teaching has increased significantly in the past few
years. Studies and resources in the area have proliferated, but it is important to know …

This chapter tells the story of over 150 years in the teaching of English as a second
language (ESL) pronunciation. An analysis of historical resources may reveal a reliable …

This paper reports on an investigation into the international intelligibility of the English of
educated Hong Kong speakers whose L1 is Cantonese. Samples of recordings of extended …