Pronunciation accuracy
may not be the most important thing for making non-native English
speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including
fewer pauses, restarts and speech rate, according to research from
Purdue University.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-fluency-outweighs-pronunciation-non-native-english.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-fluency-outweighs-pronunciation-non-native-english.html#jCp
Pronunciation accuracy
may not be the most important thing for making non-native English
speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including
fewer pauses, restarts and speech rate, according to research from
Purdue University.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-fluency-outweighs-pronunciation-non-native-english.html#jCp
Hello everyone,Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-fluency-outweighs-pronunciation-non-native-english.html#jCp
A colleague recently sent me a link to Phys-Org and an article titled Fluency outweighs pronunciation for understanding non-native English speakers.
Fluency outweighs pronunciation for understanding non-native English speakers
May 09, 2014 by Amy Patterson Neubert
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-fluency-outweighs-pronunciation-non-native-english.html#jCp
by Amy Patterson Neubert - May 9, 2014This article informs us that the research coming from Purdue University reports that second language English speakers are easier to understand by their fluency more so than their accuracy of pronunciation.
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Ponder this and then let us know if you agree!
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