塔莉娅•艾萨克斯（Talia Isaacs）是英国伦敦大学学院UCL教育学院应用语言学中心的高级讲师。她的研究领域是学习者的表现和评分者对二语话语（尤其是语音）的评分。她是《语言评估季刊》《语言测试》和《第二语言发音》的编委会成员。

帕维尔•特罗菲莫维奇（Pavel Trofimovich）是加拿大康考迪亚大学教育系应用语言学教授。他的研究领域是二语（L2）处理的认知研究、音系学、二语习得的社会语言学研究以及二语发音教学。他是《语言学习》的现任编辑。

Contents

Acknowledgements xxiii

Contributors xxv

Part 1: Introduction

1 Key Themes, Constructs and Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Second Language Pronunciation Assessment 3

2 What Do Raters Need in a Pronunciation Scale? The User’s View 12

Part 2: Insights From Assessing Other Language Skills and Components

3 Pronunciation and Intelligibility in Assessing Spoken Fluency 37

4 What Can Pronunciation Researchers Learn From Research into Second Language Writing? 54

5 The Role of Pronunciation in the Assessment of Second Language Listening Ability 72

Part 3: Perspectives on Pronunciation Assessment From Psycholinguistics and Speech Sciences

6 The Relationship Between Cognitive Control and Pronunciation in a Second Language 95

7 Students’ Attitudes Towards English Teachers’ Accents: The Interplay of Accent Familiarity, Comprehensibility, Intelligibility, Perceived Native Speaker Status, and Acceptability as a Teacher 121

8 Re-examining Phonological and Lexical Correlates of Second Language Comprehensibility: The Role of Rater Experience 141

9 Assessing Second Language Pronunciation: Distinguishing Features of Rhythm in Learner Speech at Different Proficiency Levels 157

Part 4: Sociolinguistic, Cross-cultural and Lingua Franca Perspectives in Pronunciation Assessment

10 Commentary on the Native Speaker Status in Pronunciation Research 185

11 Variation or ‘Error’? Perception of Pronunciation Variation and Implications for Assessment 193

12 Teacher-Raters’ Assessment of French Lingua Franca Pronunciation 210

13 Pronunciation Assessment in Asia’s World City: Implications of a Lingua Franca Approach in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 237

Part 5: Concluding Remarks

14 Second Language Pronunciation Assessment: A Look at the Present and the Future 259

Index 272