experiencing world englishes at home

Experiencing World Englishes at Home

Noriko Nakanishi (ID #675)

Kobe Gakuin University

November, 23, 2020 10:45 AM - 11:10 AM

JALT2020＠Zoom Live

Background

SS: 4 months in UK, Canada, US, Australia, or NZ. Besides taking English lessons,

they conduct a survey on World Englishes.

T: 1 year visiting scholar

in UK Remote online project

Year 2020: All the other classes are

conducted remotely!

Aims, Procedure, Outcome

Aims Procedure Outcome (Ss) Outcome (T)

• motivate Ss to take the initiative in international conversation

• invite participants to the survey

• motivation & confidence in English communication

Visualize Ss' engagement • how many

people they invited?

• how many audio files they analyzed?

• raise Ss' awareness of World Englishes

• analyze the results at home

• be accustomed to different accents of World Englishes












Face-to-face ↓

Written (chat, email, social media)












Each student has a link to his/her own survey form.

125, 262 words +

10,283 sentences












The project gave SS a reason for starting

conversation












SS participate in the project as researchers.

Pedagogical Implications • For international communication

As a speaker: Be aware that different people speak differently. -> Confidence, self-esteem, self-correction if necessary

As a listener: Be accustomed to different accents. -> Tolerance, flexibility, comprehension

• For education and research

As a teacher: -> Show evidence of World Englishes.

As a researcher: -> Ss can collect data while studying abroad. -> Analyze the sound data of different accents. -> In the future, update the descriptions shown in dictionaries.

Invitation

1. as a participant

2. as a teacher

3. as a researcher

Sounds of Englishes

Freely accessible from https://noriko-nakanishi.com/sounds or Google “Sounds of Englishes”

Works best with

Google Chrome

https://noriko-nakanishi.com/sounds



Acknowledgement This project is

a part of my doctoral research, supported by

JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 17K02914.

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