Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advancing towards research-informed pronunciation pedagogy / Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Alice Henderson and Jonas Fouz-Gonzalez -- Linking research and practice. Connecting the dots between pronunciation research and practice / John M. Levis -- When a psycholinguist enters the multilingual classroom : bridging the gap between psycholinguistics and pronunciation teaching / Tanja Angelovska -- Surveying beliefs, attitudes and classroom practices. Teaching English pronunciation in Croatian elementary schools : views and practices / Alma Vancura and Drazenka Molnar -- Cause for optimism : non-native pre-service teacher's attitudes towards and beliefs about accent / Kristyna Cervinkova Poesova and Klara Lancova -- Summative and formative pronunciation assessment in Polish secondary schools : the students' perspective / Magorzata Baran-ucarz -- Pronunciation learning strategies : a task-based perspective / Magdalena Szyszka -- Using corpora to inform instruction. The intonation contour of non-finality revisited : implications for EFL teaching / Sophie Herment and Anne Tortel -- Rationale and design of a study of foreign accented academic English / Daniel John Frost and Alice Henderson -- Corrective feedback and unintelligibility : do they work in tandem during tandem interactions? / Sylwia Scheuer and Celine Horgues -- Investigating learners' output. Acquisition of English onset consonant clusters by L1 Chinese speakers / Yulia Lavitskaya and Antonina Zagorodniuk -- Vowel reduction in English grammatical words by Macedonian EFL learners / Ivana Duckinoska -- Exploring tools and techniques. Integrating prosodic features in a children's English course / Veronika Vonzova and Radek Skarnitzl -- Differential effects of lexical and non-lexical high-variability phonetic training on the production of L2 vowels / Mireia Ortega, Ingrid Mora Plaza and Joan C. Mora -- Mobile apps for pronunciation training : exploring learner engagement and retention / Beata Walesiak.

"English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights presents recent research on L2 English pronunciation including pedagogical implications and applications, and seeks to bridge the gulf between pronunciation research and teaching practice. The volume's 15 chapters cover a range of aspects that are central to pronunciation teaching, including the teaching of different segmental and suprasegmental features, teachers' and learners' views and practices, types and sources of learners' errors, feedback and assessment, tools and strategies for pronunciation instruction, reactions towards accented speech, as well as the connection between research and teaching. Chapters offer a fully developed section on pedagogical implications with insightful suggestions for classroom instruction. This format and the variety of topics will be informative for researchers, language teachers, and students interested in English pronunciation, as it explores the diverse challenges learners of different L1 backgrounds face, and also provides research-informed techniques and recommendations on how to cope with them"-- Provided by publisher.