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Eunjae Park – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2022
This study investigates strategies employed by East Asian international students to cope with comprehension barriers caused by different types of English accents. While these students face a range of comprehension barriers caused by unfamiliar accented English (from both native speakers and speakers of other languages), little is known about how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Asians
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Akiko Fuse; Krysteena Alloggio; Seung-Yun Yang – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of the listener's education and occupation on intelligibility, comprehensibility (ease of understanding), and accentedness in speakers of Russian-accented American English (RA), Southern-accented American English (SA), and General American English (GAE). Native English listeners (N=126) rated…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Wilson, Erin O'Brien; Spaulding, Tammie J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: This study evaluated the effects of noise and speech intelligibility on the processing of speech produced from native English; high-intelligibility, Korean-accented English; and moderate-intelligibility, Korean-accented English speakers. Method: Both listener comprehension, determined by accuracy judgment on true/false sentences, and…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech, Listening Comprehension, English