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Direct linkDerwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Language Learning, 2013
Researching the longitudinal development of second language (L2) learners is essential to understanding influences on their success. This 7-year study of oral skills in adult immigrant learners of English as a second language evaluated comprehensibility, fluency, and accentedness in first-language (L1) Mandarin and Slavic language speakers. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedMunro, Murray J.; Derwing, Tracey M. – Language Learning, 1998
Tested the hypothesis that accented speech heard at a reduced rate would sound less accented and more comprehensible than speech produced at a normal rate. In two experiments, English native-speaker listeners rated a passage read by 10 high-proficiency Mandarin learners of English. Findings suggest that a general speaking strategy of slowing down…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Hypothesis Testing, Language Proficiency, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedMunro, Murray J.; Derwing, Tracey M. – Language Learning, 1995
Examines the interrelationships among accentedness, perceived comprehensibility, and intelligibility in the speech of second-language (L2) learners. The findings suggest that although strength of foreign accent is correlated with perceived comprehensibility and intelligibility, a strong foreign accent does not necessarily reduce the…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Dialects
