Saito, K;
Trofimovich, P;
Isaacs, T;
Webb, S;
(2016)
Re-Examining Phonological and Lexical Correlates Of Second Language Comprehensibility: The Role of Rater Experience.
In: Isaacs, Talia and Trofimovich, Pavel, (eds.)
Second Language Pronunciation Assessment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
(pp. 141-156).
Multilingual Matters: Bristol, UK.
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Abstract
Few researchers and teachers would disagree that some linguistic aspects of second language (L2) speech are more crucial than others for successful communication. Underlying this idea is the assumption that communicative success can be broadly defined in terms of speakers’ ability to convey the intended meaning to the interlocutor, which is frequently captured through a listener-based rating of comprehensibility or ease of understanding (e.g. Derwing & Munro, 2009; Levis, 2005). Previous research has shown that communicative success – for example, as defined through comprehensible L2 speech – depends on several linguistic dimensions of L2 output, including its segmental and suprasegmental pronunciation, fluency-based characteristics, lexical and grammatical content, as well as discourse structure (e.g. Field, 2005; Hahn, 2004; Kang et al., 2010; Trofimovich & Isaacs, 2012). Our chief objective in the current study was to explore the L2 comprehensibility construct from a language assessment perspective (e.g. Isaacs & Thomson, 2013), by targeting rater experience as a possible source of variance influencing the degree to which raters use various characteristics of speech in judging L2 comprehensibility. In keeping with this objective, we asked the following question: What is the extent to which linguistic aspects of L2 speech contributing to comprehensibility ratings depend on raters’ experience.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Re-Examining Phonological and Lexical Correlates Of Second Language Comprehensibility: The Role of Rater Experience |
| ISBN-13: | 9781783096855 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.21832/ISAACS6848 |
| Publisher version: | https://zenodo.org/record/165465 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 Talia Isaacs, Pavel Trofimovich and the authors of individual chapters. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. To view a copy of this license, visit https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154994 |
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