Review published in:
25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness
Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
[Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3] 2020
► pp. 505–510
Book review

John M. Levis (2018). Intelligibility, oral communication, and the teaching of pronunciation

John M. Levis. Intelligibility, oral communication, and the teaching of pronunciation
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 304 pp. ISBN 9781108404013 $34.99

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| Brock University
Article outline
  • Part I.A framework for the teaching of spoken language
  • Part II.Word-based errors and intelligibility
  • Part III.Discourse-based errors and intelligibility
  • Part IV.Teaching and research approaches to intelligibility
  • Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 07 July 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20021.tho
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