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The Development of L2 Oral Language Skills in Two L1 Groups: A 7-Year Study by Derwing, Tracey M., Munro, Murray J.

“…Researching the longitudinal development of second language (L2) learners is essential to understanding influences on their success. This 7‐year study of oral…”
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Putting Accent in Its Place: Rethinking Obstacles to Communication by Derwing, Tracey M, Munro, Murray J

“…One of the most salient aspects of speech is accent--either dialectal differences attributable to region or class, or phonological variations resulting from L1…”
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Second Language Accent and Pronunciation Teaching: A Research-Based Approach by DERWING, TRACEY M., MUNRO, MURRAY J.

“…Empirical studies are essential to improving our understanding of the relationship between accent and pronunciation teaching. However, the study of…”
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Opening the Window on Comprehensible Pronunciation After 19 Years: A Workplace Training Study by Derwing, Tracey M., Munro, Murray J., Foote, Jennifer A., Waugh, Erin, Fleming, Jason

“…We present the outcomes of a pronunciation training program conducted in a workplace setting with second language speakers who had lived in an English‐speaking…”
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Segmental Acquisition in Adult ESL Learners: A Longitudinal Study of Vowel Production by Munro, Murray J., Derwing, Tracey M.

“…Research on second language (L2) phonetic learning indicates that, even in adults, segmental acquisition remains possible through L2 experience. However, the…”
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Detection of nonnative speaker status from content-masked speech by Munro, Murray J., Derwing, Tracey M., Burgess, Clifford S.

“…Listeners are highly sensitive to divergences from native-speaker patterns of speech production, such that they can recognize second-language speakers even…”
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The functional load principle in ESL pronunciation instruction: An exploratory study by Munro, Murray J., Derwing, Tracey M.

“…Although it is recognized that ESL students often need assistance to become more comprehensible speakers, their teachers usually have limited time to devote to…”
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The Foundations of Accent and Intelligibility in Pronunciation Research by Munro, Murray J, Derwing, Tracey M

“…Our goal in developing this timeline was to trace the empirical bases of current approaches to L2 pronunciation teaching, with particular attention to the…”
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Second Language Fluency: Judgments on Different Tasks by Derwing, Tracey M., Rossiter, Marian J., Munro, Murray J., Thomson, Ron I.

“…In this study we determined whether untrained raters’ assessments of fluency in low‐proficiency second language speech were related to temporal measures and…”
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Oral Fluency: The Neglected Component in the Communicative Language Classroom by Rossiter, Marian J, Derwing, Tracey M, Manimtim, Linda G, Thomson, Ron I

“…In this paper, we argue that current instructional ESL resources must be supplemented to facilitate the effective development of learners' oral fluency. We…”
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The Effectiveness of L2 Pronunciation Instruction: A Narrative Review by Thomson, Ron I, Derwing, Tracey M

“…Research on the efficacy of second language (L2) pronunciation instruction has produced mixed results, despite reports of significant improvement in many…”
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Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years by Munro, Murray J, Derwing, Tracey M, Saito, Kazuya

“…This short report describes a longitudinal examination of the acquisition of English-aspirated stops by an initial cohort of 24 adult Slavic-language (Russian,…”
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Foreign Accent, Comprehensibility, and Intelligibility in the Speech of Second Language Learners by Munro, Murray J., Derwing, Tracey M.

“…One of the chief goals of most second language learners is to be understood in their second language by a wide range of interlocutors in a variety of contexts…”
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Foreign Accent, Comprehensibility, and Intelligibility in the Speech of Second Language Learners by Munro, Murray J, Derwing, Tracey M

“…Examines the interrelationships among accentedness, perceived comprehensibility, and intelligibility in the speech of second-language (L2) learners. The…”
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English pronunciation and fluency development in Mandarin and Slavic speakers by Derwing, Tracey M., Thomson, Ron I., Munro, Murray J.

“…The development of accent and fluency are traced in the speech of 20 Mandarin and 20 Slavic adult immigrants to Canada over a period of 10 months. The…”
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How long can naturalistic L2 pronunciation learning continue in adults? A 10-year study by Thomson, Ron I., Derwing, Tracey M., Munro, Murray J.

“…We examined the naturalistic pronunciation development of two groups of L2 speakers over 10 years. Initially, 50 beginner ESL students participated in…”
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The Retention of Newcomers in Second- and Third- Tier Canadian Cities by Krahn, Harvey, Derwing, Tracey M., Abu-Laban, Baha

“…The federal government of Canada and several provincial governments are anxious to promote a more balanced distribution of immigrants across the country…”
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Reflections on the Development of L2 Pronunciation Research in Canada by Derwing, Tracey M, Thomson, Ronald I

“…Tracey Derwing and Ron Thomson reflect on the growth of Canadian L2 pronunciation research from the early 1990s onward. Although many phoneticians and language…”
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Processing time, accent, and comprehensibility in the perception of native and foreign-accented speech by Munro, M J, Derwing, T M

“…In this study, a sentence verification task was used to determine the effect of a foreign accent on sentence processing time. Twenty native English listeners…”
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A Longitudinal Study of ESL Learners' Fluency and Comprehensibility Development by Derwing, Tracey M., Munro, Murray J., Thomson, Ron I.

“…This longitudinal mixed-methods study compared the oral fluency of well-educated adult immigrants from Mandarin and Slavic language backgrounds (16 per group)…”
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