We propose a new framework for conceptualizing measures of instructed second language
(L2) pronunciation performance according to three sets of parameters:(a) the constructs …

It has been a long time since Jack Richards and I (Pennington and Richards, 1986) noted
that pronunciation, once a central concern of language teaching, had been sidelined in …

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 …

Although social networking apps and dictation-based automatic speech recognition (ASR)
are now widely available in mobile phones, relatively little is known about whether and how …

Hundreds of millions of language learners around the globe study a second language with
popular apps such as Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, Busuu, and Babbel. This study examined …

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 …

The current study compares the effects of two types of pronunciation instruction (segmental-
and suprasegmental-based) on the development of second-year Chinese undergraduate …

There has been research on teachers' cognitions of corrective feedback (CF), their
knowledge, beliefs and attitudes and how they are reflected in practice (Borg, 2003; …

Explicit pronunciation instruction enhances production of intelligible, comprehensible, and
fluent second language (L2) speech. Additionally, task-based instruction (TBI) enhances the …

Issues of intelligibility may arise amongst English learners when acquiring new words and
phrases in North American academic settings, perhaps in part due to limited linguistic data …