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Blackwood, Robert – Language Awareness, 2011
As part of the attempts to revitalise Corsican, a regional language of France, and to reverse the language shift to French, language activists and academics have sought to apply the model of a polynomic language to what is considered as one language, but what is, in fact, a number of different Corsicans, each with varying levels of mutual…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Mutual Intelligibility, Foreign Countries, French
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Saito, Kazuya; van Poeteren, Kim – Language Awareness, 2012
A questionnaire study was conducted to examine how 120 highly experienced EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers in Japan adjust their pronunciation in order to facilitate and refine their students' learning skills to approach mutual intelligibility in second language (L2) classrooms (i.e. "pronunciation-specific teacher talk").…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation