WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, ...
In his 1913 play Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wrote: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” While Shaw was referring to ...
As English cements its position as the global business language, spoken by an estimated 1.5 billion people worldwide, 70-75% of whom are non-native speakers, a critical gap persists: pronunciation and ...