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Empirical Approaches to Measuring the Intelligibility of Different Varieties of English in Predicting Listener Comprehension
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Kang, Okim; Thomson, Ron I.; Moran, Meghan – Language Learning, 2018
This study compared five research-based intelligibility measures as they were applied to six varieties of English. The objective was to determine which approach to measuring intelligibility would be most reliable for predicting listener comprehension, as measured through a listening comprehension test similar to the Test of English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Comparative Analysis, Listening Comprehension