The International Comprehensibility of Varieties of South African English.

van der Walt, Christa

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ERIC Number: EJ609847

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2000

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The International Comprehensibility of Varieties of South African English.

van der Walt, Christa

World Englishes, v19 n2 p139-53 Jul 2000

Describes a project that aimed to find a more contextualized method of testing the comprehensibility of spoken language and then to use this method to test the comprehensibility of five native and nonnative varieties of South African English with as international an audience as time and resources would allow. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, International Communication, Language Tests, Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Testing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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