Asian accents has become necessary for healthcare professionals. To enhance test validity and authenticity and promote beneficial washback, English proficiency tests used in healthcare professions should include a variety of Asian English accents.... Unfortunately, these tests limit accents to the inner-circle varieties. With a high tendency of encountering Asian speakers, it seems unreasonable to ignore Asian English accents and expose healthcare personnel to the inner-circle varieties only in listening

Perceptions in English accents are of paramount importance to understand the use of English language in communication nowadays. Asian English accents recently become a trend of real communicative environment that Thai learners are getting more... acquainted for work and socialize. Thus, this study aimed to investigate 152 first-year Thai undergraduate students’ perceptions toward the three Asian English accents on listening comprehension, namely Filipino, Singaporean, and Indian. The instruments were

displayed, providing a reference for future researchers aiming to explore further Thai-accented English. The review can also be applied to other L1- influenced Englishes in the Southeast Asian region which possess similar phonological and phonetic... being dominated by native speaker scholars based in Anglophone countries. Thai English pronunciation is considered to be one of the minor accents in World Englishes, and some local English language educators in Thailand may have insufficient in-depth