Sara Kennedy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sara Kennedy plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2215-1931 | E-ISSN 2215-194X
2022 Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 153–179 | Chapter
This study examined longitudinal changes in second language (L2) interlocutors’ mutual comprehensibility ratings (perceived ease of understanding speech), targeting comprehensibility as a dynamic, time-varying, interaction-centered construct. In a repeated-measures, within-participants design,… read more
2021 Difficulties understanding L2 speech due to discourse- versus word-level elements Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 7:3, pp. 315–342 | Article
In this article, the constructs of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and discourse-level understanding in second language (L2) speech are analyzed for their conceptual and methodological characteristics. The analysis is complemented by a case study of listeners’ understanding of two matched L2… read more
2020 Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct 25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 430–457 | Article
This study examined longitudinal changes in second language (L2) interlocutors’ mutual comprehensibility ratings (perceived ease of understanding speech), targeting comprehensibility as a dynamic, time-varying, inter action-centered construct. In a repeated-measures, within-participants design,… read more
2019 Second language speakers’ awareness of their own comprehensibility: Examining task repetition and self-assessment Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5:3, pp. 347–373 | Article
This study investigated whether second language (L2) speakers are aware of and can manipulate aspects of their speech contributing to comprehensibility. Forty Mandarin speakers of L2 English performed two versions of the same oral task. Before the second task, half of the speakers were asked to… read more
2018 Structural alignment in L2 task-based interaction ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 169:2, pp. 293–320 | Article
This study investigated L2 structural alignment, the tendency for interlocutors to re-use a syntactic structure present in recent discourse, focusing on two information-gap interactive tasks. Thirty-four university students from diverse language backgrounds, recruited from different academic… read more
2015 Interactions verbales et résolution de malentendus en français L2 entre locuteurs de L1 commune et différente: Une étude de cas Language, Interaction and Acquisition 6:2, pp. 237–269 | Article
This study presents a review of the comprehension problems encountered by six pairs of adult speakers of French L2 during the completion of three communicative and interactive tasks with speakers from the same or different L1 language background. Excerpts of their interactions revealed that the… read more