Chandrika Balasubramanian

• Arab Gulf English majors’ language preferences, use and beliefs across domains

  Open Access•Christopher Denman, Chandrika Balasubramanian et al.•ARTICLE•Training, Language and Culture•2025

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  English is the dominant medium of instruction for numerous university programmes across the Arab Gulf. While a growing body of research examines learners’ attitudes towards English Medium Instruction (EMI), issues of language preference/use have received far less attention. The research reported here sought to redress this imbalance by examining the domain-based language preferences, use, and beliefs of English majors at Oman’s national universit…

• Omani University Students’ Attitudes Towards Collaborative Writing

  Open Access•Mohammed Al‐Alawi, Mohammed Al Alawi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language Teaching and…•2025

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  This paper examined the students’ attitudes, based on their cultural background, towards collaborative writing (CW). The participants included 215 undergraduate students from a large public university in the Sultanate of Oman and the instrument used was a questionnaire designed for the study. The results show that students’ general attitudes towards CW are largely neutral to slightly positive on some of the scales. Students acknowledged that CW i…

• Circumstance adverbials in registers of Indian English

  Open Access•Chandrika Balasubramanian, Chandrika Katrina Balasubramanian•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2009•Citada por: 1•Referências: 13

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  This is a corpus-based investigation of also and too in 11 registers of Indian English. The corpus used for this study is a combination of a Corpus of Contemporary Indian English (CCIE), and certain sections of ICE-India. The study: (1) determines the proportions of also and too with respect to each other in the Indian corpus; (2) compares the proportions of the adverbials in registers of Indian English versus registers of British and American En…

• Testing the Effects of Regional, Ethnic, and International Dialects of English on Listening Comprehension

  Open Access•Roy C Major, Susan Fitzmaurice et al.•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2005•Citada por: 9•Referências: 42

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  It is widely believed that listeners understand some dialects more easily than others, although there is very little research that has rigorously measured the effects. This study investigated whether listeners experience more difficulty with regional, ethnic, and international dialects of English than with Standard American English. The results demonstrated that speaker dialect had a significant effect for both English as a second language (ESL) …

• The Effects of Nonnative Accents on Listening Comprehension

  Roy C Major, Susan F Fitzmaurice et al.•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2002•Citada por: 27

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  Roy C. Major, Susan F. Fitzmaurice, Ferenc Bunta, Chandrika Balasubramanian, The Effects of Nonnative Accents on Listening Comprehension: Implications for ESL Assessment, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Summer, 2002), pp. 173-190

• The Effects of Nonnative Accents on Listening Comprehension

  Roy C Major, Susan F Fitzmaurice et al.•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2002•Citada por: 27

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  Roy C. Major, Susan F. Fitzmaurice, Ferenc Bunta, Chandrika Balasubramanian, The Effects of Nonnative Accents on Listening Comprehension: Implications for ESL Assessment, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Summer, 2002), pp. 173-190

• Testing the Effects of Regional, Ethnic, and International Dialects of English on Listening Comprehension

  Open Access•Roy C Major, Susan Fitzmaurice et al.•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2005•Citada por: 9•Referências: 42

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  It is widely believed that listeners understand some dialects more easily than others, although there is very little research that has rigorously measured the effects. This study investigated whether listeners experience more difficulty with regional, ethnic, and international dialects of English than with Standard American English. The results demonstrated that speaker dialect had a significant effect for both English as a second language (ESL) …

• Circumstance adverbials in registers of Indian English

  Open Access•Chandrika Balasubramanian, Chandrika Katrina Balasubramanian•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2009•Citada por: 1•Referências: 13

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  This is a corpus-based investigation of also and too in 11 registers of Indian English. The corpus used for this study is a combination of a Corpus of Contemporary Indian English (CCIE), and certain sections of ICE-India. The study: (1) determines the proportions of also and too with respect to each other in the Indian corpus; (2) compares the proportions of the adverbials in registers of Indian English versus registers of British and American En…

• The Effects of Nonnative Accents on Listening Comprehension

  Roy C Major, Susan F Fitzmaurice et al.•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2002•Citada por: 27

  Incluir item

  Roy C. Major, Susan F. Fitzmaurice, Ferenc Bunta, Chandrika Balasubramanian, The Effects of Nonnative Accents on Listening Comprehension: Implications for ESL Assessment, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Summer, 2002), pp. 173-190

• Testing the Effects of Regional, Ethnic, and International Dialects of English on Listening Comprehension

  Open Access•Roy C Major, Susan Fitzmaurice et al.•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2005•Citada por: 9•Referências: 42

  Incluir item

  It is widely believed that listeners understand some dialects more easily than others, although there is very little research that has rigorously measured the effects. This study investigated whether listeners experience more difficulty with regional, ethnic, and international dialects of English than with Standard American English. The results demonstrated that speaker dialect had a significant effect for both English as a second language (ESL) …

• Circumstance adverbials in registers of Indian English

  Open Access•Chandrika Balasubramanian, Chandrika Katrina Balasubramanian•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2009•Citada por: 1•Referências: 13

  Incluir item

  This is a corpus-based investigation of also and too in 11 registers of Indian English. The corpus used for this study is a combination of a Corpus of Contemporary Indian English (CCIE), and certain sections of ICE-India. The study: (1) determines the proportions of also and too with respect to each other in the Indian corpus; (2) compares the proportions of the adverbials in registers of Indian English versus registers of British and American En…

• Arab Gulf English majors’ language preferences, use and beliefs across domains

  Open Access•Christopher Denman, Chandrika Balasubramanian et al.•ARTICLE•Training, Language and Culture•2025

  Incluir item

  English is the dominant medium of instruction for numerous university programmes across the Arab Gulf. While a growing body of research examines learners’ attitudes towards English Medium Instruction (EMI), issues of language preference/use have received far less attention. The research reported here sought to redress this imbalance by examining the domain-based language preferences, use, and beliefs of English majors at Oman’s national universit…

• Omani University Students’ Attitudes Towards Collaborative Writing

  Open Access•Mohammed Al‐Alawi, Mohammed Al Alawi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language Teaching and…•2025

  Incluir item

  This paper examined the students’ attitudes, based on their cultural background, towards collaborative writing (CW). The participants included 215 undergraduate students from a large public university in the Sultanate of Oman and the instrument used was a questionnaire designed for the study. The results show that students’ general attitudes towards CW are largely neutral to slightly positive on some of the scales. Students acknowledged that CW i…

Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 obras) · Linguistics (3 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Active listening (2 obras) · American English (2 obras) · Communication (2 obras) · Comprehension (2 obras) · English language (2 obras) · First language (2 obras)