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Research Methods and Intelligibility Studies
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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)
The International Comprehensibility of Varieties of South African English.
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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