A Study of Comprehensibility of Native and Non-Native Varieties of English [electronic resource] / Toshihiko Kobayashi.
This study examines the comprehensibility of Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian English by listeners whose native languages are Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian English. The subjects, 30 college students, were grouped according to whether they listened to male or female speakers. Res...
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| 520 | |a This study examines the comprehensibility of Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian English by listeners whose native languages are Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian English. The subjects, 30 college students, were grouped according to whether they listened to male or female speakers. Results show native speakers are better at comprehending all varieties of English, native or non-native, than Chinese and Japanese speakers. However, native English is not always more comprehensible than non-native English to non-native listeners. The subjective reactions reveal that the subjects who listen to male speakers give the worst score in listening to the speaker they judge most difficult to comprehend, but the same is not true of those who listen to female speakers. It was also found that the subjects identify their own native language speakers more readily than the speakers of other native languages, and that native English is as identifiable as their own English. Some pedagogical implications are discussed. (Author/MSE) | ||
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| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Comparative Analysis. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Contrastive Linguistics. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a English. |2 ericd. |
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| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Higher Education. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Japanese. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Language Variation. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Listening Comprehension. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Native Speakers. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Regional Dialects. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Sex Differences. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Uncommonly Taught Languages. |2 ericd. |
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