Issues of intelligibility in world Englishes and EIL contexts

This article examines Larry Smith's work on intelligibility issues in English as an International Language (EIL) contexts. In his seminal articles and books, Smith describes how intelligibility can be problematized in both intra‐/inter‐national contexts in relation to cross‐/inter‐/intra‐cultural communication purposes. As one of the guiding/founding scholars of the world Englishes paradigm, he is one of the first to describe the functions of English as an International Language in inter‐/intra‐/cross‐cultural communication in world Englishes. His views on intelligibility influenced various fields of study – including the English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) paradigm – ranging from its connection to comprehensibility to interpretability in national and international contexts in intercultural communication studies to its implications for an EIL‐aware pedagogical practice

Epistemology · Intelligibility (philosophy · Linguistics · Sociology · World Englishes · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Philosophy · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Second Language Learning and Teaching

• Hodgetts, John. Pronunciation Instruction in English for Academic Purposes

  Open Access•Alice Henderson•ASp•2025

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• Embracing ELF through Erasmus+ mobility

  Muhammet Yaşar Yüzlü•Asian Englishes•2024

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• The Other tongue

  Braj B Kachru•The Other tongue•1992

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• The Phonology of English as an International Language (Oxford Applied Linguistics)

  Jennifer Jenkins•The Phonology of English as an…•2000

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• English as a Lingua Franca in the International University

  Jennifer Jenkins•English As A Lingua Franca In The…•2013

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• Lingua Franca English, Multilingual Communities, and Language Acquisition

  Open Access•Suresh Canagarajah•Modern Language Journal•2007

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• English as an International Auxiliary Language

  Open Access•Larry E Smith•RELC Journal•1976

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• Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Gurt) 2001

  Open Access•Deborah Tannen, James E Alatis•Georgetown University Round Table…•2003

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• English for Cross-Cultural Communication

  Larry E Smith, Khalilullah Rafiqzad•TESOL Quarterly•1979

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• The Comprehensibility of Three Varieties of English for College Students in Seven Countries1

  Open Access•Larry E Smith, John A Bisazza•Language Learning•1982

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• International intelligibility of English

  Open Access•Larry E Smith, Cecil L Nelson•World Englishes•1985

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• Torn between the norms

  Open Access•Ayọ Bamgboṣe•World Englishes•1998

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