“…Although second language pronunciation clearly has ramifications for intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, relatively little attention has been given to the teaching of pronunciation (Arteaga, 2000;Derwing & Munro, 2005;Elliott, 1995Elliott, , 1997Isaacs, 2009;Lord, 2005;Saalfeld, 2011;Saito, 2011Saito, , 2013Simões, 1996), particularly in comparison with grammatical and syntactic features. Pennington and Richards (1986), for example, explain how pronunciation has been set aside as mere "linguistic competence" rather than "communicative competence" in more recent methods of instruction (p. 207).…”