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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

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

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Published online: 7 July 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20021.tho
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
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