Biogeography. Sinauer Associates

D Brown - 2009 - Citeseer
The field of second language (L2) pronunciation instruction has benefited greatly from an
increasing amount of research and attention in the last ten years. Before this, the field
suffered from a narrow approach to pronunciation featuring a dominant emphasis on
students sounding native-‐like. However, in the last ten years, a paradigm shift has occurred
bringing focus to aspects of intelligibility and comprehensibility (Derwing & Munro, 2005;
Levis, 2005). With the focus of L2 pronunciation research and instruction shifting, areas of …