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 …

The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a
powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of …

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 …

Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Exploring fluency from multiple vantage
points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research …

Both native and nonnative language teachers often find pronunciation a difficult skill to teach
because of inadequate training or uncertainty about the effectiveness of instruction. But …

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 acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

Researching the longitudinal development of second language (L2) learners is essential to
understanding influences on their success. This 7‐year study of oral skills in adult immigrant …

A fundamental question in the study of second language (L2) fluency is the extent to which
temporal characteristics of speakers' first language (L1) productions predict the same …

This mixed-methods study examines the effects of rating scale length and rater experience
on listeners' judgments of second-language (L2) speech. Twenty experienced and 20 …