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Sugene Kim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines L2 speakers' accent attitudes in relation to their linguistic profile and current practices, recruiting 107 multilingual postgraduate students of 34 different nationalities enrolled in leading research universities in Japan. The participants completed a survey regarding their perceptions of different English varieties in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Language Role
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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)