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...

Prosodic aspects of speech like melodic and rhythmic patterning are known to be essential for the comprehensibility and intelligibility of second language speakers. The central unit of prosody is the prosodic phrase (also called the thought group in teaching materials), and the teaching of phrase-level prosody is therefore of great relevance.In this professional-development workshop, targeting in-service and pre-service ESL/EFL teachers and emerging researchers, I will introduce ...