The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 Years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness

Levis, John M. (Editor)/ Derwing, Tracey M. (Editor)/ Munro, Murray J. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 902721137X / ISBN 13: 9789027211378

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2022

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234 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 Years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902721137X
• ISBN 13: 9789027211378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.58 kilograms

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Synopsis

Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing’s 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this work to new ways of understanding second language speech. By rejecting the nativeness approach upon which previous pronunciation research and teaching were built, Munro and Derwing’s paper became the catalyst for a new paradigm of pronunciation and speech research and teaching. For the first time, pronunciation researchers had an empirically-motivated set of dimensions for assessing L2 speech. Results of many subsequent studies showed that the original insights of three partially-independent measures are indispensable to language teaching, language assessment, social evaluations of speech, and pedagogical priorities. This monograph offers 9 diverse chapters by leading researchers, all of which focus on intelligibility and or comprehensibility. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in up-to-date coverage of L2 pronunciation matters. Originally published as special issue of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 (2020)