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Gabber, Shirley; Vondiziano, Gregory – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted not only how linguistic fieldwork is conducted but also how university-level field methods courses are taught. In this paper, we detail the methodology utilized during the 2020-21 academic year by the University of Hawai?i at Manoa Department of Linguistics for the entirely remote Field Methods sequence…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Research, Documentation, Applied Linguistics
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Sewell, Andrew – World Englishes, 2010
This paper first briefly reviews the concept of intelligibility as it has been employed in both English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and world Englishes (WE) research. It then examines the findings of the Lingua Franca Core (LFC), a list of phonological features that empirical research has shown to be important for safeguarding mutual intelligibility…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Mutual Intelligibility, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Simons, Gary Francis – 1979
Strategies are developed for understanding how language variation limits communication. Methods of measuring communication are discussed, including an intelligibility measure used in the Solomon Islands. The analysis of data gathered using communication measurement is discussed. The result of the analysis is a determination of the number of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Contrastive Linguistics, Culture Contact, Diglossia