Talia Isaacs
List of John Benjamins publications for which Talia Isaacs plays a role.
2022 Reactions to second language speech: Influences of discrete speech characteristics, rater experience, and speaker first language background The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 125–151 | Chapter
This study investigates how Mandarin and Slavic language speakers’ comprehensibility, accentedness, and fluency ratings, as assigned by experienced teacher-raters and novice raters, align with discrete linguistic measures, and raters’ accounts of influences on their scoring. In addition to… read more
2020 Reactions to second language speech: Influences of discrete speech characteristics, rater experience, and speaker first language background 25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 402–429 | Article
This study investigates how Mandarin and Slavic language speakers’ comprehensibility, accentedness, and fluency ratings, as assigned by experienced teacher-raters and novice raters, align with discrete linguistic measures, and raters’ accounts of influences on their scoring. In addition to… read more
2019 Lexical aspects of comprehensibility and nativeness from the perspective of native-speaking English raters ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170:1, pp. 24–52 | Article
This study analyzed the contribution of lexical factors to native-speaking raters’ assessments of comprehensibility and nativeness in second language (L2) speech. Using transcribed samples to reduce non-lexical sources of bias, 10 naïve L1 English raters evaluated speech samples from 97 L2… read more
2016 Linguistic dimensions of second language accent and comprehensibility: Nonnative listeners’ perspectives Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2:2, pp. 160–182 | Article
The current study investigated the effect of listener status (native, nonnative) and language background (French, Mandarin) on global ratings of second language speech. Twenty-six nonnative English listeners representing the two language backgrounds (n = 13 each) rated the comprehensibility and… read more
2013 12. International engineering graduate students’ interactional patterns on a paired speaking test: Interlocutors’ perspectives Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts, McDonough, Kim and Alison Mackey (eds.), pp. 227–246 | Chapter
This study examines interactional patterns between English language learners from different first language backgrounds on a collaborative speaking task from the Business English Certificates, a standardized test often used to screen prospective employees for their English language proficiency at… read more