An Article Review: Revisiting the Moderating Effect of Speaker Proficiency on the Relationships among Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in L2 Spanish

Abstract

The current article review summarizes the main points and comments on Huensch and Nagle (2022)’s article published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Huensch and Nagle (2022)’s study is a replication of their research in 2021, exploring the moderating effect of speaker proficiency on the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish. Although lack of innovation, the study enjoys linguistic, logical and methodological strengths, as well as theoretical and practical significance. It also provides implications for L2 pronunciation research and classroom teaching.