This study examines EFL learners’ confidence, attitudes, and practice towards learning pronunciation in a sample of Saudi EFL learners. There are some issues which require substantially major revisions:

1-Authors state that they based this study on Based on the willingness to communicate and social context theory. However, it is not clear how these two perspectives contributed to this study. Authors should explain this in more detail.
2-It is also not clear why authors selected three factors of attitudes, confidence, and practice in pronunciation. Are there any previous studies that have emphasized these variables as important factors in pronunciation?
3Again in the theoretical framework , authors explain WTC and SC models, but it is not yet clear how they are connected to pronunciation.
4-Authors can provide the questionnaire in an Appendix.
5-p.13: Authors state “The questionnaire was reviewed by five EFL instructors, who had a doctoral degree and taught in the applied linguistics field, to determine the content and construct validity”.-> It is not correct to say that construct validity can be determined by instructors as construct validity has to be supported using statistical procedures such as exploratory factor analysis or confirmatory factor analysis.
6-Did authors checked outliers? It is possible that the high value for one of the variables can be improved by removing outliers.
7-Table 1 which reports descriptive statistics should be moved to Results section.
8-The second subquestion of the first research question is “What are the factors that influence their confidence?”. To answer this research question, authors ran three independent-samples t-tests to determine whether there was any statistically significant difference in learners’ confidence in their own pronunciation between those who had taken phonetics course(s) and those who had not, to determine whether there was any statistically significant difference in learners’ confidence in their own pronunciation between those who had visited an English-speaking country and those who had not, and to determine whether there was any statistically significant difference in learners’ confidence in their own pronunciation between freshman/sophomore students and junior/senior students. Authors just compare some groups with each other without answering “What are the factors that influence their confidence?”. Instead of this research question, authors should use, for example, “is there a statistically significant difference in learners’ confidence in their own pronunciation between those who had taken phonetics course(s) and those who had not”. And so on.
9-According to APA 7, exact p-values should be reported.
10-“that descriptive statistics were run showing that Saudi EFL learners have a strong positive attitude towards native-like pronunciation (M = 3.75)” -> Is there a criterion to say that a mean of 3.45 out of 5 is strong?
11-p. 17: “as illustrated in Table 5, showing that learners reported greater importance of their role in learning pronunciation (M = 4.16, SD = .91) than their instructors’ role in teaching them pronunciation (M = 3.58, SD = 1.01).” -> All the comparisons reported here should be empirically tested using t-tests.
12-I wonder why authors did not examine their research questions using qualitative methods. Even the research questions look like the study is qualitative in nature. I think this is a severe limitation of this study that authors used quantitative methods to answer several qualitative research questions.
13-I wonder what the contribution of this research is to L2 pronunciation research and teaching. No research/teaching implications have been provided.

Authors have revised their manuscript and I can say that the quality of the manuscript has improved. However, some other revisions are still required regarding the analyses and contribution of this research:

1-Why did authors run three separate EFAs? They could run one single EFA with all items to see how items load on the three factors. Moreover, authors should provide the factor loadings in a Table.

2-I already asked the authors this: [“as illustrated in Table 5, showing that learners reported greater importance of their role in learning pronunciation (M = 4.16, SD = .91) than their instructors’ role in teaching them pronunciation (M = 3.58, SD = 1.01).” -> All the comparisons reported here should be empirically tested using t-tests.]. However, authors did not run it and said that it is not possible to run t-test here. I have to disagree with the authors because it is very logical to compare the means of two items of a questionnaire using dependent-samples t-test.

3-I still have some concerns about the contribution of this study. What unique finding does the present research add to the literature about L2 pronunciation research?