In the recent years, research on speech recognition has given much diligence to the automatic transcription of speech data such as broadcast news (BN), medical transcription, etc. Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) systems have been developed successfully for Englishes (American English (AE), British English (BE), etc.) and other languages but in case of Indian English (IE),...

English Language Teaching (ELT) is a major international enterprise. This theoretical paper suggests that a number of ideological assumptions underpin some aspects of its curricular and pedagogic thinking. Specifically we will look at (a) the ways in which ownership and use of a language has been built around the idea of a homogeneous community or nation with shared and unchanging social values...

Abstract English use in many short-term study abroad (STSA) contexts is often more fluid than its common representation language education. Based on such representation, students may develop perspectives towards effective as fixed standard norms. Experiences of communication during STSA help form new use, linked to Global Englishes (GE), which accounts for the fluidity global contexts. The form...

Currently the importance of Intercultural understanding has no doubted. People can not resist existence world Englishes or English as international language which require only ability to use but also respectfully across culture. To achieve those goals, intercultural is highly needed. One ways that be done gain through reading fairy tales. The aim this study investigate and analyze possibility t...

Abstract This study illustrates how speech features that emerged from language contact and acquisition in a pluralistic society can accrue diverse social-indexical meanings over time. The social perceptions towards three variants of coda /l/ Singapore English—namely dark-l, the variant associated with prescriptive norms, clear-l vocalised-l, which are arose through contact—are examined. finding...

Our work on the origins of New Zealand English (Cordon et ai, forthcoming) has shown that this newest of all of the major native speaker varieties of English is the result of dialect contact and new-dialect formation. Rather obviously, the dialects which were involved in the initial contact were dialects of English which had been brought from different parts of the British Isles. In terms of po...

The objective of this research is to detect effective factors in English pronunciation teaching from the viewpoint of EIL (English as an International Language). This research is based on the data of the Successful Pronunciation Learners (SPL) selected by the raters, Japanese and native speakers of English (NSE), in Tominaga (2005). On the grounds that the aim of teaching English to Japanese st...

Pronunciation, long on the periphery of applied linguistics research and pedagogy, continues to grow in importance because of its central roles in speech recognition, speech perception, and speaker identity. Pronunciation-related issues such as comprehensibility, accent, and the mutual intelligibility of varieties of world Englishes are central to many questions in applied linguistics. This cal...