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Direct linkDalman, Mohammadreza; Kang, Okim – International Journal of Listening, 2023
This study investigated U.S. undergraduates' perceptions of non-native speakers' (NNS) speech which had received 100% proficiency scores on the TOEFL iBT test. Fifty-five U.S. undergraduates rated 20 speech samples for comprehensibility, accentedness, and acceptability. The speech samples were also analyzed for acoustic fluency. Descriptively,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scores, Speech Communication
Kang, Okim – TESOL Journal, 2015
From the perspective of World Englishes (i.e., varieties of English in different regions of the world), mutual intelligibility is a key issue for both listeners and speakers. Nevertheless, learners often have an idealized notion of native-speaker spoken norms and may be in favor of more prestigious inner circle models than others. This study…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Student Attitudes, Sociolinguistics
