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Rajagopalan, Kanavillil – Applied Linguistics, 2010
The term "intelligibility" is widely viewed as denoting an ideologically neutral concept and therefore useful in speculating about the future of the English language, especially in the context of its expansion at the current exponential rate and the danger or otherwise of its breaking up into mutually incomprehensible languages, the way Latin did…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning
Pakir, Anne – World Englishes, 2010
Much research on world Englishes (WE) since the 1980s has yet to impact significantly upon recent applied linguistics work in the areas of instruction, curriculum, testing and policy. Much of the received wisdom has been informed by the paradigm established by the earlier study of International English (IE) and its attendant foci in teaching…
Descriptors: Models, Mutual Intelligibility, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries

van der Walt, Christa – World Englishes, 2000
Describes a project that aimed to find a more contextualized method of testing the comprehensibility of spoken language and then to use this method to test the comprehensibility of five native and nonnative varieties of South African English with as international an audience as time and resources would allow. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, International Communication, Language Tests