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Yoder, Zachariah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The recorded text test (RTT) is commonly used to test dialect intelligibility, often to inform language development decisions. More than 25 papers using the RTT method were published on www.sil.org/silesr from January 2009 to March 2013. As introduced by Casad [1974. "Dialect Intelligibility Testing." Summer Institute of Linguistics…
Descriptors: Scores, Language Minorities, Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility
Pohl, Jacques – Yelmo, 1974
Discusses communication between multilingual individuals by means of a language other than their native languages. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication Problems, Comprehension, Modern Languages
Tonkin, Humphrey – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1977
A discussion of the issue of unilinguism and linguistic pluralism on the international scene. The need for international communication where English is the dominant force and efforts to preserve cultural equality are seen as compelling reasons for promotion of an international language such as Esperanto. (AMH)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), International Relations