Abstract It has been argued that prosodic features (e.g. stress, rhythm, or intonation) contribute significantly to production and comprehension among speakers of English. While it is easy come across studies focus on these in native Englishes, the same cannot be said Englishes outside speaker contexts, especially regarding rhythm academic discourse, although such results greatly enhance our un...

The Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) framework has been proposed as a practical guidance for researchers and practitioners to reconsider revise their current teaching practices recognize global status of English in multilingual communities (Galloway & Rose, 2018). However, the GELT still requires extensive evidence from stakeholders field language teaching. This study aims design e...

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...

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...

Americanization has been described as one of the major sociocultural processes language change currently affecting varieties English worldwide; it is generally linked to post-World War II rise United States global superpower status in political, military, economic, and cultural terms. Owing their immediate geographical proximity, Bahamas always had closer demographic, cultural, institutional li...