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Tomokazu Nakayama; Seoh Koon Tan; Hoo Chun Pek – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
This study investigates the intelligibility of English with mora-timed rhythm or Japanese Katakana Hatsuon Eigo among NNSs living in a multilingual community, utilizing shadowing to measure the concept of intelligibility. Eighty-six participants (10 Malay NSs, 28 Mandarin NSs, and 30 Tamil NSs) were asked to shadow a recording of a 300-word…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Heng, Chan Swee; Kashiha, Hadi; Tan, Helen – English Language Teaching, 2014
Group discussion forms an integral language experience for most language learners, providing them with an opportunity to express themselves in a naturalistic setting. Multi-word expressions are commonly used and one of them is lexical bundles. Lexical bundles are types of extended collocations that occur more commonly than we expect; they are…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students