World Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and intelligibility

Berns, Margie

doi:10.1111/j.1467-971x.2008.00571.x

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“…Entretanto, é necessário definir a quantidade adequada e os aspectos mais importantes a serem ensinados (BERNS, 2008;JENKINS, 2003). De acordo com Berns (2008), esses aspectos da pronúncia devem ser considerados dentro de uma comunidade específica de falantes. No Brasil, algumas pesquisas foram conduzidas principalmente no nível segmental (por exemplo, CRUZ, 2003CRUZ, , 2008CRUZ, , 2010SCHADECH;SILVEIRA, 2013), mas muita pesquisa ainda é necessária para determinar que aspectos de pronúncia (no nível segmental ou suprassegmental) podem comprometer a comunicação de falantes do português brasileiro (PB) em inglês.…”

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Descendo Ou Rising? Padrões Entoacionais De Perguntas Totais Da Língua Inglesa E Da Língua Portuguesa Por Falantes Brasileiros

Reis¹

2014

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REV I S T A X , V O L U M E 1 , 2 0 1 4 P á g i n a | 1 PASSARELLA-REIS DESCENDO OU RISING? PADRÕES ENTOACIONAIS DE PERGUNTAS PALAVRAS-CHAVE:Interrogativas Totais Neutras; Língua Adicional; Transferência Linguística da L1. ABSTRACT:The benefits of the teaching of pronunciation on the learning process of additional languages (AL) are undeniable. However, determining the amount and the pronunciation aspects that are relevant to enable intelligible speech is not only a need, but also a challenge. With the purposes of contributing to research in the area, this study sets out to investigate the intonational patterns of neutral polar questions produced by BP speakers in English and in BP, and by an American English speaker in English. The analysis was carried out with the use of Praat and the notation of the Autosegmental Metric System. Results showed that the intonational patterns produced by the BP speakers were (1) patterns directly transferred from their L1 (/LH*L%/), (2) English patterns (/L*H%/), and (3) other intonational patterns that suggest the existence of an LA still in development. Besides L1 transfer, time of experience with learning and the age of onset of learning may have influenced the production of the intonational patterns investigated.

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Descendo Ou Rising? Padrões Entoacionais De Perguntas Totais Da Língua Inglesa E Da Língua Portuguesa Por Falantes Brasileiros

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2014

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“…Smith and Rafiqzad (1979), Smith & Nelson (1985), Jenkins (2002) and Berns (2008). Smith and Nelson (1985) point out that there is general agreement that it is unnecessary for every speaker of English to be intelligible to every other speaker of English, but that we do need to be intelligible to those with whom we are likely to communicate in English.…”

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“…Jenkins (2002Jenkins ( , 2005 and where at least one party is not a native speaker of English, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) e.g. Jenkins (2006Jenkins ( , 2009, Berns (2008), Seidlhofer (2009) andWatterson (2008). In this context, it is unproblematic to discuss matters such as an ELF core phonology (Jenkins 2000).…”

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Using Nigerian English in an International Academic Setting

Cunningham

2012

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This study examines the English pronunciation of a group of Nigerian students at a university in Sweden from the point of view of their intelligibility to two groups of listeners: 1) native speakers of English who are teachers at the university; 2) nonnative speakers of English who are teachers at the university. It is found that listeners who are accustomed to interacting with international students do better than those who are not, and that native speakers of English do no better or worse than non-native listeners. The conclusion is drawn that locally useful varieties of Nigerian English may not easily be used as for wider communication and that students preparing to study abroad would find it useful to gain access to a more widely intelligible variety.

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“…This would help to begin the process of description and codification called for by Kirkpatrick (2007b), and would also help to establish a link between the World Englishes (WE) movement, with its pluricentric orientation towards the description of new varieties of English, and ELF. However, the compatibility of the two approaches has been questioned by, for example, Berns (2008), who notes that the promotion of a 'common core' of pronunciation features sits somewhat uneasily with the valorisation of 'autonomy and creativity' (Bolton 2000) in the World Englishes movement.…”

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Phonological features of Hong Kong English : patterns of variation and effects on local acceptability

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Phonological Features of Hong Kong English: Patterns of Variation and Effects on Local Acceptability by SEWELL, Andrew John Doctor of PhilosophyThe changing dynamics of international communication in English have led to a intense questioning of the relevance of native-speaker pronunciation models in language teaching and testing. In addition, the World Englishes approach to local varieties has increased their level of recognition. Both of these developments suggest that English pronunciation models need to be reviewed, and Hong Kong represents an interesting case study. Although it has been claimed that Hong Kong English is at the 'nativization' stage, the existence of exonormative attitudes towards English is also well known. Two important questions arise from this inherent tension, neither of which has been intensively addressed in previous studies. Firstly, although many of the features of Hong Kong English pronunciation have been described, patterns of inter-speaker variation have not been investigated in detail. Secondly, the attitudes of Hong Kong English users towards the phonological features of their own variety have not been studied in ways that take account of such variation.This dissertation addresses both of these questions by being features-based in approach and using local listeners to evaluate accent samples. After an initial review of the features of Hong Kong English pronunciation, a preliminary study surveys the occurrence of consonantal phonological features within a mini-corpus of speech samples taken from local television programmes. Its findings are presented in the form of an implicational scale, which not only shows the relative frequencies with which different features occurred, but also indicates the existence of implicational patterns of co-occurrence. In the main study, twelve authentic accent samples (eleven Hong Kong speakers and one British speaker) were presented to 52 first-year undergraduate students for evaluation as to their acceptability, defined here as acceptability for pedagogical purposes.Multivariate statistical analysis discovered firstly that phonological 'errors', as marked by the student listeners, were the most important measured factor in determining the acceptability scores, and secondly that only certain types of 'error' or 'feature' had significant effects. These features were either related to L1 transfer or involved other salient phenomena such as idiosyncratic alterations to syllable structure. The explanatory part of the study includes acceptability as one of the factors determining feature persistence, in an 'ecological' or 'evolutionary' model of L2 phonology acquisition and development that combines the findings of the preliminary and main studies. Among the other factors that determine feature persistence or disappearance, salience, intelligibility and markedness are invoked as important influences.The acceptability data also has pedagogical implications, in that local listeners did not give the British accent the highest acceptability rating. ...

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World Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and intelligibility

Cited by 57 publications

References 11 publications

Descendo Ou Rising? Padrões Entoacionais De Perguntas Totais Da Língua Inglesa E Da Língua Portuguesa Por Falantes Brasileiros

Descendo Ou Rising? Padrões Entoacionais De Perguntas Totais Da Língua Inglesa E Da Língua Portuguesa Por Falantes Brasileiros

Using Nigerian English in an International Academic Setting

Phonological features of Hong Kong English : patterns of variation and effects on local acceptability

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