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Jingwen Wang; Ying Zheng – Language Testing, 2026
Two pivotal constructs, intelligibility (listeners' actual understanding) and comprehensibility (listeners' perceived difficulty of understanding), have dominated second language (L2) pronunciation research, marking a shift away from an emphasis on nativeness. The 2020 Companion Volume to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intelligibility, Comprehension, Pronunciation

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