Category: Diversity Issues

Focuses on a research paper related to the investigation of relationship between speech repertoires and societal domains of Malaysian Chinese as of August 1976. Source of data for the study; Chinese dialect groups in Malaysia; Societal domains considered in the study; Percentage of informants with English-medium primary education with those with Chinese medium primary education.… Continue reading Speech Repertoires And Societal Domains Of Malaysian Chinese

This paper is essentially a consideration of methodological issues in L2 studies, with a focus on collecting production data in nonnative contexts. It begins with a discussion of past techniques for investigating L2 speech, and then makes a case for new ways of examining the speech of proficient speakers of second language varieties of English… Continue reading Capturing L2 Spoken English: Methodological Challenges