TY - JOUR AU - Tassev, Valentin Valentinov PY - 2019/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - University Students’ Attitudes towards Comprehensibility of Pronunciation of Native English Teachers versus Non-native English Teachers JF - วารสารวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏสวนสุนันทา JA - irdssru VL - 11 IS - 2 SE - บทความวิจัย DO - 10.53848/irdssru.v11i2.233393 UR - https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/irdssru/article/view/233393 SP - AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The following research study investigated the relationship between students’ perceived levels of comprehensibility of various English accents and their attitudes to their desired pronunciation models of use in their future communication in English. The findings strongly suggest that seen through students’ eyes, native speaker (NS) accents are not necessarily more comprehensible than non-native speaker (NNS) accents. In fact, the majority of the participants remained <em>neutral</em> on this issue. The findings also reveal that students were aware and open-minded to various accents and pronunciation models in English, and they remained so in terms of how they envisioned the use of such accents in their future communication in English. Thus, their answers indicated that they were willing to use and produce other accents and pronunciation models in English than the NS model, including their own local South Korean English accent (SKEA). &nbsp;</p> ER -