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Wilang, Jeffrey Dawala; Teo, Adisa – Online Submission, 2012
This paper focuses on designing a comprehensibility test and a questionnaire for spoken world Englishes in Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, and utilizing the test to investigate the comprehension of Burmese, Cambodians, Indonesians, Laotians, Thais and Vietnamese. We reviewed the demarcation of users of English based on Kachru's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
Wilang, Jeffrey Dawala; Teo, Adisa – Online Submission, 2012
The predicted widespread use of English as a lingua franca following ASEAN's 2015 integration mushroomed intelligibility studies between and among Asean nationals including Bruneians, Burmese, Cambodians, Filipinos, Indonesians, Laotians, Malaysians, Singaporeans, Thais and Vietnamese. Previous studies regarding ASEAN nationals' intelligibility…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Pronunciation
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Bruthiaux, Paul – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
The Mekong has long attracted interest although it remains economically insignificant. A group of riparian states known as the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)--Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province (China)--now manage aspects of regional development including trade, water management and education. Standard GMS discourse…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Water