Importance Of Intelligibility

In today’s world English has become a global language and all citizens of the world have become global citizens. In this modern era, the world is a global village so everyone has a better access to fly from place to place. This mobility is done through various vehicles may be cars, bikes, buses, trains, boats, ships and airlines .Among all these vehicles airlines, play a vital role in present day mobilization. Hence majority people prefer airlines to move from country to country. In the process the passengers have to have the ability to understand the speech of the airhostesses and sometimes pilots. Intelligibility needs good pronunciation. Here airhostesses and pilots should have good pronunciation skills for better intelligibility. So segmental and supra segmental features of airhostesses and pilots play a significant role for better communication.
Key Words: Intelligibility, communication, Segmental, Supra-segmental
Introduction:
Intelligibility may be broadly defined as the extent to which a speaker’s message is actually understood by a listener. (Munro and Derwing 1999)
Bansal (1969) says: “To be intelligible, the speaker must articulate his sounds and words clearly, so that the learner does not have stopped to think what word was meant. The vowels should be pronounced with the right quality and the consonants should be sharp and clear in their articulation the speaker has to be particularly careful with personal and place names.”