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Intelligibility and Individual Learner Differences in the EIL Context
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Matsuura, Hiroko – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
According to Smith and Nelson [Smith, L.E., Nelson, C.E., 1985. "International intelligibility of English: directions and resources." "World Englishes" 3, 333-342.], "intelligibility" refers to word/utterance recognition, whereas "comprehensibility" is the understanding of word/utterance meaning. This study…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Correlation, Foreign Countries, North American English
Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of American and Irish Englishes in Japan.
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Matsuura, Hiroko; Chiba, Reiko; Fujieda, Miho – World Englishes, 1999
Examined the effect of familiarity with different English accents, investigating Japanese college students' intelligibility and comprehensibility judgements of familiar and unfamiliar English (American and Irish English). Results indicated that familiarity and exposure contributed to higher perceived comprehensibility, but not necessarily to…
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Dialects, English