With the significant upsurge of English language speakers in world, it is easier to anticipate chances both native and non-native communicating with each other. As a consequence, question intelligibility different varieties has become area be studied. Normally, most studies utilized participants who have an extensive background language, such as majors, teachers, or natives investigate World En...

Thousands of non-native speakers have been taking international tests English administered by long-established testing boards, such as ETC and PEARSON, for a wide range purposes worldwide. These test-takers represent various Englishes Outer Expanding Circle countries. However, there is little information to the degree which their are recognized represented in major English. Thus, this study exp...

The English language has taken an active role in the post-method era, and now nature of teaching as a foreign or second been altered to incorporate variety critical constituents within its scope. To exemplify, concepts international language, world Englishes, pedagogy have started play crucial part English. In this connection, considering enhanced roles these L2 teaching, conceptual domains are...

The world Englishes (WEs) paradigm describes the spread of English in three concentric circles (Kachru, 1985) – Inner Circle (e.g., USA, UK, and Australia), Outer (e.g. India, Philippines, Singapore), Expanding China, Indonesia, Thailand). With Englishization nativization outside changing demographics users non-native speakers [NNSs] considerably outnumber native [NSs] [Crystal, 1995; Graddol, ...

A number of previous studies on the English pronunciation of native speakers of Mandarin have discovered many sound features distinct from Standard English, yet none of these analyse how frequently each of these features occurred in learners with different English proficiency levels (Chang, 1991; Chen, 1975; Chung, 2006; Gao, 1995; Lee, 1986). This study focuses on the frequency of such pronunc...

English Today / Volume 24 / Issue 02 / June 2008, pp 3 12 DOI: 10.1017/S026607840800014X, Published online: 05 November 2008 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S026607840800014X How to cite this article: Kingsley Bolton (2008). English in Asia, Asian Englishes, and the issue of prociency. English Today, 24, pp 3-12 doi:10.1017/S026607840800014X Request Permissions : C...