Presentation

Assessing Speech Intelligibility: Experts Listen to Two Students

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Abstract

In order to use intelligibility as a guideline for assessing pronunciation, we need to understand how judgments of speech intelligibility are made, and to what extent judgments are consistent across different raters. This panel discussion asked English pronunciation teaching experts from around the world to listen to the free speech and read speech of a Spanish and Korean native speaker and to evaluate what features in their English most impacted their intelligibility. The discussion touched on a variety of themes, four of which are discussed: listener specific factors, identification of features that seemed to be important, the scapegoating of foreign accent, and the consequences of using read speech and free speech in assessing intelligibility.

How to Cite:

Levis, J., (2010) “Assessing Speech Intelligibility: Experts Listen to Two Students”, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Proceedings 2(1).