English pronunciation research

Like Brown, we calculated the percentage of articles devoted to an ESL/EFL pronunciation-related topic by counting the total number of articles in each journal and the number the number of pronunciation articles. [...] The authors argued that “it is important that prospective teachers be exposed to information about the nature of foreign accents, their role in communication and the kinds of reactions they tend to elicit from the public in general” (p. [...] Extemporaneously produced utterances in the prosodic group at the end of the teaching period were judged to be significantly more comprehensible than the productions of the other groups. [...] For example, in the case of absence, a student may think that he or she is producing the final consonant and it would be helpful if the teacher told the student to make the final consonant „stronger‟ or „longer‟ rather than telling the student to produce the consonant. [...] The issue of accentedness is closely related to the identity and experience of ESL learners and teachers.