Intelligibility, comprehensibility and spoken language -- Setting priorities : what teachers and researchers say -- Segmentals and intelligibility -- Consonant clusters and intelligibility -- Word stress and intelligibility -- Rhythm and intelligibility -- Intonation and intelligibility : the roles of prominence and tune -- Teaching for intelligibility : guidelines for setting priorities -- The intelligibility-based classroom -- What should and should not be taught : an intelligibility-based approach.
Summary:
"A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching, and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening"-- Provided by publisher.
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