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Shin, Seung-Hoon. 2016. A Study on Proficiency, Intelligibility, Accentedness and Acoustic Features of English Speech by Koreans in Gyeongbuk Area. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 41-1, 39-65. This study investigates acoustic properties of English speech made by Korean Learners of English based on Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit(ISIB) and preference judgments by Koreans, and intelligibility and accentedness evaluations by native speakers of English. The results showed that some English articulations favored by Koreans were not proper in terms of English intelligibility. ISIB among Koreans did apply when it comes to word-final consonant deletion and vowel insertion for illicit syllable structures. It also revealed the facts that weird aspiration of voiceless stops, monothongization of diphthongs and wrong sentence stress patterns did not aggravate the degrees of native speakers’ intelligibility while improper word stress, wrong consonant pronunciations and vowel insertion prohibited native speakers from understanding the English sentences in a proper manner. Also, intelligibility by native speakers of English was not significantly different from accentedness in this experiment. (Yeungnam University)