Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
These papers are from the PSLLT 16 conference held in October 2025 at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. The written proceedings are not a complete set of papers from the conference, but they primarily include oral presentations, poster presentations, and teaching tips. The papers are around 4,000 words long.
Editors: Pavel Trofimovich (Guest Editor), Anamaria Bodea (Guest Editor), Thao-Nguyen Nina Le (Guest Editor), Ryuichi Suzuki (Guest Editor), Cesar Teló (Guest Editor)
Presentation
What can reading aloud tell us about word stress difficulties?
John M Levis and Tarik Uzun
2026-05-15 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Preventing oral proficiency attrition during extended breaks: Longitudinal evidence from shadowing training in a Japanese EFL context
Noriko Nakanishi and Nobuaki Minematsu
2026-05-26 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
How much training is enough? A time-course analysis of a 10-session audiovisual HVPT for L2 English vowels
Cristina Aliaga-García
2026-05-25 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Development of Brazilian Portuguese vowels by an Argentinean learner: A longitudinal case study using Bayesian GAMMs
Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Jr. and Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves
2026-05-29 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Meeting students where they are: A community college approach to asynchronous pronunciation instruction through H5P-integrated speech recognition
Patryk Mrozek, Lara Mendicino, Kate Carney and Annie Karas
2026-05-25 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Native speaker perspectives on pronunciation teaching: A phenomenological study
Rizgar Qasim Mahmood
2026-05-18 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
L’acquisition du schwa par des apprenants de français L2 dans le Nord-Ouest de l’Ontario
Isabelle Lemée
2026-05-21 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Integrating digital tools in pronunciation instruction: A repertoire approach
DJ Kaiser
2026-05-20 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Advancing accuracy without fluency trade-offs: Using the PFIAP model to teach contrastive nuclear stress placement to B1-level EFL high school students
Eliana Berardo and Pedro Luis Luchini
2026-05-21 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
What we learn from Vivian: A novice workplace intelligibility tutor’s journey
Ching-Hsuan Wu
2026-05-16 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Instructional modality in focus: Fostering engagement and phonological awareness through connected speech in the second language classroom
Bettiana Andrea Blázquez and Pedro Luis Luchini
2026-05-21 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Rethinking the multilingual advantage in accent perception: Mixed-effects evidence from L1 listeners
Francesca G Grixoni and Alexander Holmberg
2026-05-27 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
A MOOC for pronunciation teaching and research in the real world
Laura Rupp, Chloe Simon, Alice Henderson, Olivier Glain and Adam Wilson
2026-06-03 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Landguaging imperial classrooms: Critical ecopedagogies for plurilingual speaking
Rhonda Chung and Walcir Cardoso
2026-06-03 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Teacher training in L2 pronunciation pedagogy: Effects of a short generic course
Elina Vasu, Henna Heinonen and Maria Kautonen
2026-06-03 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Foreign accent imitation: Evidence of VOT change
Alice Henderson, Joan C. Mora, Vincent Chanethom and Arkadiusz Rojczyk
2026-06-10 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Teaching Tips
Finding your voice in L2 Japanese: Guided accent/voice exposure to enhance more faithful L2 identities and communicative competence
Vance Schaefer and Abner Tian Zhang
2026-05-13 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Fly swatter games for stress and intonation in the in-person classroom
Marsha J. Chan
2026-06-05 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Advancing and enhancing English language learners’ segmental pronunciation intelligibility through fluency line tasks
Mark Tanner
2026-05-19 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Teaching challenging segmental sounds and contrasts with physicalizations
DJ Kaiser
2026-05-19 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Sounds familiar? Interactive activities for perception training in the classroom
Ines Martin and Lieselotte Sippel
2026-05-20 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Posters
Revitalizing segmental phonology for intelligibility: Unlocking L2 pronunciation success through technology-mediated learning
Ana Cristina Chiusano and Pedro Luis Luchini
2026-05-26 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Investigating the effects of background noise on lexical perception in Japanese EFL learners: The role of acoustic feature variation
Rikutaka Kanayama and Yuichi Ono
2026-05-27 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
GenAI-powered pronunciation practice: Adapting ASR-based lessons for voice-activated conversational assistants
William Gottardi, Rosane Silveira and Walcir Cardoso
2026-06-02 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World
Prosodic measures of intonation: Implications for a proficiency examination for Brazilian EFL teachers
Marina Melo Cialdini and Douglas Altamiro Consolo
2026-06-03 Volume 16 • 2026 • Pronunciation for the Real World