Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation is a scholarly journal devoted to research into the acquisition, perception, production, teaching, assessment, and description of prosodic and segmental pronunciation of second languages in all contexts of learning. The journal encourages research that connects theory and practice, enhances our understanding of L2 phonological learning processes, and provides connections between L2 pronunciation and other areas of applied linguistics such as pragmatics, CALL, and speech perception.
The Journal publishes papers in four main areas: experimental, instructed, and naturalistic research about second language pronunciation; review articles that synthesize research perspectives of key pronunciation issues from different disciplines;teaching-oriented papers detailing successful practices and research-based instruction; and reviews of technology and books focused on second language pronunciation.
Contributions focusing on empirical research will represent all portions of the methodological spectrum including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies. The journal invites papers on topics such as intelligibility and comprehensibility, accent, phonological acquisition, the use of technology (such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and CAPT), spoken language assessment, the social impact of L2 pronunciation, the ethics of pronunciation teaching, pronunciation acquisition in less commonly taught languages, speech perception and its relationship to speech production, and other topics.

The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation publishes its articles Online First.

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ISSN 2215-1931 | E-ISSN 2215-194X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp

Sample issue: JSLP 3:1

Board

Editor

John M. Levis | Iowa State University | JournalSLP

gmail.com

Reviews Editor

Amanda Huensch | University of Pittsburgh

Editorial Assistant

Sinem Sonsaat | Iowa State University

Editorial Board

Michael Carey | University of the Sunshine Coast

Juli Cebrian | Autonomous University of Barcelona

Tracey M. Derwing | University of Alberta & Simon Fraser University

David Deterding | Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Jennifer A. Foote | University of Alberta

Tetsuo Harada | Waseda University

Luke Harding | University of Lancaster

Debra M. Hardison | Michigan State University

Rachel Hayes-Harb | University of Utah

Sam Helmuth | University of York

Okim Kang | Northern Arizona University

Sara Kennedy | Concordia University

Ee-Ling Low | National Institute of Education, Singapore

Joan Carles Mora | University de Barcelona

Murray J. Munro | Simon Fraser University

Mary Grantham O’Brien | University of Calgary

Kazuya Saito | Birkbeck College, University of London

Jane Setter | University of Reading

Ron I. Thomson | Brock University

Pavel Trofimovich | Concordia University

Chunsheng Yang | University of Connecticut

Beth Zielinski | Macquarie University

Subscription Info

Current issue: 6:3, available as of November 2020

Next issue: 7:1, expected June 2021

General information about our electronic journals.

Subscription rates

All prices for print + online include postage/handling.

	Online-only	Print + online
Volume 7 (2021): 3 issues; ca. 450 pp.	EUR 244.00	EUR 282.00

Individuals may apply for a special subscription rate of EUR 70.00 (online‑only: EUR 65.00)
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.

Available back-volumes

		Online-only	Print + online
Complete backset (Vols. 1‒6; 2015‒2020)	14 issues; 2,100 pp.	EUR 1,148.00	EUR 1,289.00
Volume 6 (2020)	3 issues; 450 pp.	EUR 244.00	EUR 282.00
Volume 5 (2019)	3 issues; 450 pp.	EUR 239.00	EUR 276.00
Volume 4 (2018)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 170.00	EUR 191.00
Volume 3 (2017)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 165.00	EUR 185.00
Volume 2 (2016)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 165.00	EUR 180.00
Volume 1 (2015)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 165.00	EUR 175.00

Issues

11 March 2021

Perception of American English consonants /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers of English

Vikas Grover , Valerie L. Shafer , Luca Campanelli , D. H. Whalen & Erika S. Levy

4 March 2021

Speech language pathologists’ beliefs and knowledge-base for providing pronunciation instruction : A critical survey

J. A. Foote & R. I. Thomson

Punching through the barrier : Using gesture to activate productive oral vocabulary

Bianca Mister , Amanda Baker & Honglin Chen

2 March 2021

Nigel G. Ward . 2019. Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation

Reviewed by Martha C. Pennington

8 February 2021

Paul Carley & Inger M. Mees . 2020. American English phonetics and pronunciation practice

Reviewed by Paul John | JSLP 7:1 (2021) pp. 130–134

A. Jarosz . 2019. English Pronunciation in L2 Instruction: The Case of Secondary School Learners

Reviewed by Tamara Jones | JSLP 7:1 (2021) pp. 135–139

Pekka Lintunen , Maarit Mutta & Pauliina Peltonen (Eds.). 2019. Fluency in L2 learning and use

Reviewed by Jimin Kahng | JSLP 7:1 (2021) pp. 121–124

D. Smakman . 2020. Clear English pronunciation: A practical guide

Reviewed by Lara Wallace

28 January 2021

Teacher cognition of pronunciation teaching : The techniques teachers use and why

Graeme Couper

19 January 2021

Kristýna Červinková Poesová & Klára Uličná . 2019. Becoming a Pronunciation Teacher

Reviewed by Leticia Quesada Vázquez

18 January 2021

L. Plonsky . 2020. Professional development in applied linguistics: A guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty

Reviewed by Tracey M. Derwing

8 January 2021

Productive phonological bootstrapping in early EFL of 4th-graders in German primary schools

Teresa Kieseier

Is giving better than receiving? The effects of peer and teacher feedback on L2 pronunciation skills

Ines A. Martin & Lieselotte Sippel | JSLP 7:1 (2021) pp. 62–88

25 November 2020

Changes in L2 pronunciation : 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness

John Levis | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 277–282

29 October 2020

Revisiting the Intelligibility and Nativeness Principles

John Levis | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 310–328

6 October 2020

International intelligibility revisited : L2 realizations of NURSE and TRAP and functional load

Veronika Thir | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 458–482

1 October 2020

Maximizing the effect of visual feedback for pronunciation instruction : A comparative analysis of three approaches

Daniel J. Olson & Heather M. Offerman | JSLP 7:1 (2021) p. 89

11 September 2020

Elina Tergujeff & Maria Kautonen (Eds.). 2019. Suullinen kielitaito – Opi, opeta, arvioi

Reviewed by Katja Immonen | JSLP 7:1 (2021) pp. 116–120

10 September 2020

Investigating the relationship between comprehensibility and social evaluation

Charlotte Vaughn & Aubrey Whitty | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 483–504

1 September 2020

Reactions to second language speech : Influences of discrete speech characteristics, rater experience, and speaker first language background

Talia Isaacs & Ron I. Thomson | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 402–429

Laura Patsko & Katy Simpson . 2019. How to Write Pronunciation Activities

Reviewed by Donna M. Brinton | JSLP 7:1 (2021) pp. 125–129

31 August 2020

Foreign accent, comprehensibility and intelligibility, redux

Murray J. Munro & Tracey M. Derwing | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 283–309

18 August 2020

Long-term effects of intensive instruction on fluency, comprehensibility and accentedness

Leif M. French , Nancy Gagné & Laura Collins | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 380–401

6 August 2020

Prosody transfer failure despite cross-language similarities : Evidence in favor of a complex dynamic system approach in pronunciation teaching

Di Liu | JSLP 7:1 (2021) pp. 38–61

4 August 2020

Comprehensibility and everyday English use : An exploration of individual trajectories over time

Beth Zielinski & Elizabeth Pryor | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 352–379

8 July 2020

Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct

Pavel Trofimovich , Charles L. Nagle , Mary Grantham O’Brien , Sara Kennedy , Kym Taylor Reid & Lauren Strachan | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 430–457

7 July 2020

Effect of pronunciation instruction on L2 learners’ listening comprehension

Phung Dao , Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen & Ngoc Bao Chau Nguyen | JSLP 7:1 (2021) pp. 10–37

Expanding the scope of L2 intelligibility research : Intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish

Charles L. Nagle & Amanda Huensch | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 329–351

John M. Levis . 2018. Intelligibility, oral communication, and the teaching of pronunciation

Reviewed by Ron I. Thomson | JSLP 6:3 (2020) pp. 505–510

8 June 2020

L2 pronunciation networking and conferences

John M. Levis | JSLP 6:2 (2020) pp. 133–147

25 March 2020

Publication venues for L2 pronunciation research

John M. Levis & Sinem Sonsaat | JSLP 6:1 (2020) pp. 1–11

17 March 2020

Authors, reviewers and JSLP

John M. Levis | JSLP 5:3 (2019) pp. 339–346

9 March 2020

Testing the malleability of teachers’ judgments of second language speech

Kym Taylor Reid , Mary Grantham O’Brien , Pavel Trofimovich & Allison Bajt | JSLP 6:2 (2020) pp. 236–264

2 March 2020

Andrew Sewell . 2016. English pronunciation models in a globalized world: Accent, acceptability and Hong Kong English

Reviewed by Veronika Thir | JSLP 6:1 (2020) pp. 127–131

25 February 2020

The Supra Tutor : Improving speaker comprehensibility through a fully online pronunciation course

Edna F. Lima | JSLP 6:1 (2020) pp. 39–67

Sounds: The Pronunciation App

Reviewed by Jonás Fouz-González | JSLP 6:2 (2020) pp. 270–275

Martha C. Pennington & Pamela Rogerson-Revell . 2019. English Pronunciation Teaching and Research: Contemporary Perspectives

Reviewed by Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova | JSLP 6:2 (2020) pp. 265–269

Rajiv Rao (Ed.). 2019. Key issues in the teaching of Spanish pronunciation: From description to pedagogy

Reviewed by Avizia Long | JSLP 6:1 (2020) pp. 122–126

13 February 2020

Rating L2 speaker comprehensibility on monologic vs. interactive tasks : What is the effect of speaking task type?

Dustin Crowther | JSLP 6:1 (2020) p. 96

11 February 2020

Pronunciation among adult Indigenous language learners : The case of SENĆOŦEN /t’/

Sonya Bird | JSLP 6:2 (2020) pp. 148–179

Aiming for advanced intelligibility and proficiency using mobile ASR

Aurore Mroz | JSLP 6:1 (2020) pp. 12–38

Evaluating two ways for marking Swedish phonological length in written text : A production study

Bosse Thorén & Hyeseung Jeong | JSLP 6:2 (2020) pp. 180–208

4 February 2020

The role of talker variability in the perceptual learning of Mandarin tones by American English listeners

Alif Silpachai | JSLP 6:2 (2020) pp. 209–235

13 January 2020

Karin Richter . 2019. English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation: Exposure and Skills Development

Reviewed by Keiko Hanzawa | JSLP 5:3 (2019) pp. 464–468

3 December 2019

Development of L2 Spanish VOT before and after a brief pronunciation training session

Katharina S. Schuhmann & Marie K. Huffman | JSLP 5:3 (2019) pp. 402–434

25 November 2019

Does personality influence ratings of foreign accents?

Caitlin Gaffney & Stephanie Côté | JSLP 6:1 (2020) pp. 68–95

Children’s and adults’ initial phonological acquisition of a foreign language

Romana Kopečková , Christine Dimroth & Ulrike Gut | JSLP 5:3 (2019) pp. 374–401

Guidelines

Authors wishing to submit articles for publication in JSLP are requested to do so through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site. All other inquiries should be directed towards the editors by e-mailing the journal at: JournalSLPgmail.com.
Submissions should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition. Submissions that do not follow the APA style or that do not correspond to the focus of JSLP will be returned to authors without review.
Contributions must be in English. Spelling should be either American English or British English and should be consistent throughout the paper. It is always advisable to have the paper checked by an experienced writer prior to submission.
All articles published in this journal are double-blind peer reviewed. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should typically be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission.
For initial submission, authors should submit their MANUSCRIPT in electronic form in Word only, double-spaced with 3 cm/1 inch margins. While submitting the manuscript, authors must provide a concise and informative title of the article; the name, affiliation, and address of each author; a self-contained abstract in English (100-150 words) that should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references, and five to ten keywords to be used for indexing purposes.
Submissions should be approximately 8,500 words long, including references and appendices.
Upon acceptance, the author will be requested to furnish the FINAL VERSION in electronic form (Word).
Authors are responsible for observing copyright laws when quoting or reproducing material. The copyright of articles published in JLSP is held by the publisher. Permission for the author to use the article elsewhere will be granted by the publisher provided full acknowledgement is given to the source.
Authors should provide the final version of the 100-150 word abstract in English.
Papers should be reasonably divided into sections and, if appropriate, subsections. The headings of these subsections should be numbered in Arabic numerals (1.; 1.1.; 1.1.1.). Authors are advised not to use more than three levels of displayed headings.
Line drawings (FIGURES) should be submitted as reproducible originals. They should be numbered consecutively, and appropriate captions should be provided. Reference to any FIGURES should be given in the appropriate place where they should appear.
TABLES should be numbered consecutively and should be referred to in the main text. TABLES should be created with Word’s table function, not as spreadsheets.
NOTES should appear as ENDNOTES and should be concise, kept to a minimum, and numbered consecutively throughout the paper.
REFERENCES in the text should be formatted according to APA style.
Authors are kindly requested to check their manuscripts very carefully before submission in order to avoid delays in publication. The first author will receive a PDF file with page proofs for final correction. One set must be returned with corrections by the dates determined by the publication schedule. Any author’s alterations other than typographical corrections in the page proofs may be charged to the author.
Authors of main articles will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their paper appears.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site.

If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors: JournalSLPgmail.com

Submission

Manuscripts can be submitted through the journal's online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper.

If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors by e-mail: JournalSLPgmail.com

Subjects

Linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CFDC: Language acquisition

Main BISAC Subject

FOR000000: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General