The current study employs a contrastive approach to analyze five consonantal features (TH stopping/ fronting, L vocalization, [n, l]/[s, ?] conflation, /r/, /v/, /w/ substitution and consonant cluster modification [CCM]) of Hong Kong English (HKE) from 37 online sound clips 29 speakers. Compared the traditional approach, uses world Englishes paradigm data, which aligns more with recent movement...

In the field of speech recognition, attempts have been made to develop an automatic evaluation system for spoken language of second language (L2) learners. The models adopted in the previous studies are a multiple regression model where naturalness of speech is estimated by differences from the speech of the native speakers in the timing characteristics of overall sentence, individual content a...

This study investigated whether Iranian EFL learners are aware of different varieties of English spoken throughout the world and whether they have tendency towards a particular variety of English. Likewise, it explored the attitudes of Iranian EFL learners towards the native and non-native varieties of English. Moreover, it made an attempt to investigate whether such attitudes are gender-orient...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the language attitudes of Japanese university students toward Japanese English in comparison to their attitudes toward Chinese English and American English. Voiced Guise Technique and questionnaires were used as methodology, having 80 students as participants. The study found that their evaluation of Japanese English was intermediate in terms of solid...

Studies on English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ identity construction have been extensively investigated in recent years. However, the previous studies exclusively focused teachers higher education and neglected Global Englishes (GE) concept mediator construction. Therefore, to fill this lacuna, current narrative research study explored of 10 Indonesian EFL secondary school era. The da...