Listening to accents. The intelligibility of casual and accented spoken English to Flemish learners of English as a Foreign Language. Ghent University
The proposed project sets out to examine how regional and non-native accents in spoken English affect the intelligibility for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Listening to a second or foreign language (L2) is known to be more difficult than listening to a first or native language (L1), and this is even more so when a speaker has an unfamiliar regional or a non-native accent. Remarkably, prior studies on L2 listening have almost ...