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Wang, Ying; Wen, Xu – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Since the 1990s, the emphasis on intelligibility as a goal in pronunciation teaching rather than near-native or nativelike competence has been reinforced by the increasing use of English as a lingua franca. The insight of the intelligibility principle has greatly impressed researchers in China's English education, but has "very limited and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Yanyan; Xiao, Jing – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
English has assumed a new role in international communication in recent decades, that is, as a Lingua Franca (ELF) among speakers with different first languages. This study attempts to investigate and analyze Chinese university students' perception and production of paired English fricatives from the perspective of ELF. By using a listening…
Descriptors: Asians, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Difficulty Level