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Stephen Bruce summarizes a 2017 article by Speppard, Elliott, and Baese-Berk in which English for Academic Purposes instructors’ perceptions of students’ comprehensibility is compared to the perceptions of content instructors. The conclusion: “The content teachers were able to accurately transcribe what the students were saying after only one listen but at the same time, quite a few of them (about 38%) didn’t think the students ready for university study.”
 
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