Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study examined American, Philippine, Korean, and Japanese university students' evaluative reactions to spoken English of L2 learners in terms of comprehensibility, accentedness, and fluency.This study also analyzed types of speaker deviations that caused intelligibility problems.A notable finding was that the four groups displayed striking similarities in their evaluations as well as in the types of linguistic features that reduced intelligibility.Although these four listener groups differed significantly not only in their L1 background but also in their general English proficiency and English -using environments, similarities that prevailed in this study are worth noting from a perspective of international intelligibility studies and in the teaching and learning of EIL (English as an international language).
Authors: Hiroko Matsuura, Reiko Chiba, Satoshi Ara
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1511888753