Cesar Teló, Ryuichi Suzuki, Gento Okawa, Lin Lu, Tahiyyah Ahmed, Zineb Balmouddane, Mayra Carvajal, Karolyn Chen, Mahdieh Fallahnejad, Andrew Kim, Annika Kovacs, Sawri Madkaikar, Lia Mejía, Alet Odal, Thi Thuy Dung Pham, Yung Flora See, Pavel Trofimovich and Mary O'Brien

Speakers’ pronunciation can have a powerful effect on both how well they are understood and how they are perceived, but the nature and the degree of that effect also depends on their listeners. In this workshop, we will explore some of the evidence of the importance of the listener’s role and ways to address it in different venues, including creating opportunities to address L1 listeners’ as well as L2 listeners’ attitudes and skills relating to comprehension of speakers from a wide variety o...