Pronunciation’s role in English speaking-proficiency ratings

References

1. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
   American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2012) ACTFL proficiency guidelines 2012. Retrieved from www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/public/​ACTFLProficiencyGuidelines2012_FINAL.pdf
   [Google Scholar]
2. British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment. (n.d.)
   British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment. (n.d.). IELTS speaking: Band descriptors(public version). Retrieved from https://www.ielts.org/~/media/pdfs/speaking-band-descriptors.ashx
   [Google Scholar]
3. Brown, A.
   (1988) Functional load and the teaching of pronunciation. TESOL Quarterly, 22, 593–606. doi: 10.2307/3587258
   https://doi.org/10.2307/3587258 [Google Scholar]
4. Carey, M. D. , Mannell, R. H. , & Dunn, P. K.
   (2011) Does a rater’s familiarity with a candidate’s pronunciation affect the rating in oral proficiency interviews?Language Testing, 28, 201–219. doi: 10.1177/0265532210393704
   https://doi.org/10.1177/0265532210393704 [Google Scholar]
5. Catford, J. C.
   (1987) Phonetics and the teaching of pronunciation: A systemic description of English phonology. In J. Morley (Ed.), Current perspectives on pronunciation: Practices anchored in theory (pp.83–100). Washington, DC: TESOL.
   [Google Scholar]
6. Dalton, P. , & Hardcastle, W. J.
   (1977) Disorders of fluency and their effects on communication. London: Edward Arnold.
   [Google Scholar]
7. Eckes, T.
   (2011) Introduction to Many-facet Rasch Measurement: Analyzing and evaluating rater-mediated assessments. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.10.3726/978‑3‑653‑04844‑5
   https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04844-5 [Google Scholar]
8. Educational Testing Service
   Educational Testing Service (2006) Rubric for rubrics. Retrieved from https://www.mbaea.org/documents/filelibrary/pdf/csin/RubricforRubrics_77EAE6205D215.pdf
   [Google Scholar]
9. Educational Testing Service
   Educational Testing Service (2014) TOEFL iBT Test. Retrieved from https://www.ets.org/s/toefl/pdf/toefl_speaking_rubrics.pdf
   [Google Scholar]
10. Hahn, L.
    (2004) Primary stress and intelligibility: Research to motivate the teaching of suprasegmentals. TESOL Quarterly, 38, 201–223. doi: 10.2307/3588378
    https://doi.org/10.2307/3588378 [Google Scholar]
11. Henrichsen, L. E. , Green, B. A. , Nishitani, A. , & Bagley, C. L.
    (1999) Pronunciation matters: Communicative, story-based activities for mastering the sounds of North American English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (electronic version available at www.pronunciationmatters.com)
    [Google Scholar]
12. Higgs, T. V. , & Clifford, R.
    (1982) The push toward communication. In T. V. Higgs (Ed.), Curriculum, competence and the foreign language teacher (pp.51–79). Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook.
    [Google Scholar]
13. Isaacs, T. , & Trofimovich, P.
    (2011) Phonological memory, attention control, and musical ability: Effects of individual differences on rater judgments of second language speech. Applied Psycholinguistics, 32, 113–140. doi: 10.1017/S0142716410000317
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716410000317 [Google Scholar]
14. Isaacs, T. , & Trofimovich, P.
    (2012) Deconstructing comprehensibility: Identifying the linguistic influences on listeners’ L2 comprehensibility ratings. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 34, 475–505. doi: 10.1017/S0272263112000150
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263112000150 [Google Scholar]
15. Jenkins, J.
    (2006) Current perspectives on teaching world Englishes and English as a lingua franca. TESOL Quarterly, 40, 157–181. doi: 10.2307/40264515
    https://doi.org/10.2307/40264515 [Google Scholar]
16. Kang, O.
    (2013) Relative impact of pronunciation features on ratings of non-native speakers’ oral proficiency. In J. Levis & K. LeVelle (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (Aug. 2012 pp.10–15). Ames, IA: Iowa State University.
    [Google Scholar]
17. Kang, O. , Rubin, D. , & Pickering, L.
    (2010) Suprasegmental measures of accentedness and judgments of language learner proficiency in oral English. The Modern Language Journal, 94, 554–566. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/40959579
    [Google Scholar]
18. Larson-Hall, J.
    (2010) A guide to doing statistics in second language research using SPSS. London: Routledge.
    [Google Scholar]
19. Lee, Y. J.
    (2012) Software to facilitate language assessment: Focus on Quest, Facets, and Turnitin. In C. Coombe , P. Davidson , B. O’Sullivan , & S. Stoynoff (Eds.), The Cambridge guide to second language assessment (pp.280–288). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
20. Levis, J. M.
    (2006) Pronunciation and the assessment of spoken language. In R. Hughes (Ed.), Spoken English, TESOL and applied linguistics: Challenges for theory and practice (pp.245–270). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.10.1057/9780230584587_11
    https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584587_11 [Google Scholar]
21. Lincare, J. M.
    (2004) Optimizing rating scale category effectiveness. In E. V. Smith & R. M. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to Rasch measurement (pp.258–278). Maple Grove, MN: JAM Press.
    [Google Scholar]
22. Munro, M. J. , & Derwing, T. M.
    (2006) The functional load principle in ESL pronunciation instruction: An exploratory study. System, 34, 520–531. doi: 10.1016/j.system.2006.09.004
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2006.09.004 [Google Scholar]
23. Myford, C. M. , & Wolfe, E. W.
    (2003) Detecting and measuring rater effects using Many-Facet Rasch Measurement: Part I. Journal of Applied Measurement, 4(4), 386–422.
    [Google Scholar]
24. Myford, C. M. , & Wolfe, E. W.
    (2004) Detecting and measuring rater effects using many-facet Rasch measurement: Part II. Journal of Applied Measurement, 5(2), 189–227.
    [Google Scholar]
25. Nicolosi, L. , Harryman, E. , & Keresheck, J.
    (1989) Terminology of communication disorders. Baltimore, MD: William & Wilkins.
    [Google Scholar]
26. Rose, M.
    (n.d.). Make room for rubrics. Retrieved from emp.byui.edu/firestonel/​bio405/readings/assessmemt/make%20room%20for%20rubrics.pdf
    [Google Scholar]
27. Wennerstrom, A.
    (1997) Discourse intonation and second language acquisition: Three genre based studies (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Washington, Seattle.
    [Google Scholar]
28. Winke, P. , Gass, S. , & Myford, C.
    (2012) Raters’ L2 background as a potential source of bias in rating oral performance. Language Testing, 30, 231–252. doi: 10.1177/0265532212456968
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0265532212456968 [Google Scholar]