Tracey Derwing and Ron Thomson reflect on the growth of Canadian L2 pronunciation research from the early 1990s onward. Although many phoneticians and language educators called for pronunciation instruction (PI) for decades, in the early 1980s little empirical research existed to inform pronunciation pedagogy, despite an influx of Vietnamese…

In a study of English Canadian attitudes toward French-accented speakers presented as potential teachers of French as a second language, undergraduate students evaluated standard French speakers most favorably on status traits, linguistic competence, and professional competence. English-accented speakers were rated least favorably;…