The third edition of World Englishes provides an engaging overview of the global variations
in vocabulary, grammar, phonology and pragmatics of English as it is used worldwide. This …

Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation, and Development describes the
language testing practice that exists in the intermediate space between large-scale …

The assessment of second language (L2) listening has received much attention. To
understand the state-of-the-art research on L2 listening assessment, a total of 87 studies …

This article presents a systematic review of studies investigating teachers' and learners'
beliefs about English varieties, World Englishes, English as an international language (EIL) …

Issues of intelligibility may arise amongst English learners when acquiring new words and
phrases in North American academic settings, perhaps in part due to limited linguistic data …

As reflected in the concept of Global Englishes, English mediates global communication,
where English speakers represent not merely those from English-speaking countries like …

Several features are eye-catching when two people meet for the first time. Age, gender, race,
height, weight–these are all very noticeable. Another characteristic that jumps out as soon …

Although scholars have argued for the inclusion of both standard and nonstandard English
accents in second language English listening tests to improve the test's construct-and …

Although intelligibility is a core concept in second language (L2) speech assessment and
teaching research, the vast majority of previous work relies on audio‐only stimuli. The …

Research on intelligibility in international encounters has long focused on issues of
pronunciation to the detriment of factors such as linguistic co-text and extralinguistic context …