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and University Colleges who centrally administer admissions to Swedish universities. to their dismay, that only three of their five year levels while simultaneously introducing them to the means, methods and models of
There is a serious problem here which is faced by all international academic pronunc they are obviously linguistically It does, of course, take two to communicate. A good deal has been written about the 148
A lack of intelligibility is a problem for speaker and listener alike, and a good deal of English has itself (to a certain extent at least) become a into the culture of the community. Like the Nigerian author, Achebe, she sees Nigerian ommunion with its ancestral home but is altered to suit its new their language(s), as is the case in Nigeria today, they gradually become alienated from e argues that English, however nativized, will not serve as a national The status of Nigerian English as a variety of English has been questioned (Ajani 2007). identity, creativi Ajani (2007) sets the position of a standardised Nigerian English against the early elements of local languages as w ew is shared by Hickey (2004:519) who writes on the phonotactics of the background language(s). In the case of Nigeria, there are a and classificatory schemes, on African languages passes as separate languages in an other words, most African languages can be regarded as mutually intelligible variants Ufomata (1996) offers an account of the continuum that exists with Nigerian standard is socially accepted and internation
intelligible to the non spoken and written by Nigerians within the Nigerian envi whether or not the features of Nigerian English are to be viewed prescriptively as errors they are intending to speak Nigerian English, t enkins 2002), there are some sounds that bat bad the question is that intelligibility criteria must be decisive here. The research of
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USING NIGERIAN ENGLISH IN AN INTERNATIONAL
ACADEMIC SETTING
UNA CUNNINGHAM
Stockholm University
1. ew undergraduate programmes taught through the medium of brought to you by COREView metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk 144and University Colleges who centrally administer admissions to Swedish universities. to their dismay, that only three of their five year levels while simultaneously introducing them to the means, methods and models of
English has no offic
expanding circle (Kachru 1992). In Sweden, the requirement of English language 146There is a serious problem here which is faced by all international academic pronunc they are obviously linguistically It does, of course, take two to communicate. A good deal has been written about the 148
A lack of intelligibility is a problem for speaker and listener alike, and a good deal of English has itself (to a certain extent at least) become a into the culture of the community. Like the Nigerian author, Achebe, she sees Nigerian ommunion with its ancestral home but is altered to suit its new their language(s), as is the case in Nigeria today, they gradually become alienated from e argues that English, however nativized, will not serve as a national The status of Nigerian English as a variety of English has been questioned (Ajani 2007). identity, creativi Ajani (2007) sets the position of a standardised Nigerian English against the early elements of local languages as w ew is shared by Hickey (2004:519) who writes on the phonotactics of the background language(s). In the case of Nigeria, there are a and classificatory schemes, on African languages passes as separate languages in an other words, most African languages can be regarded as mutually intelligible variants Ufomata (1996) offers an account of the continuum that exists with Nigerian standard is socially accepted and internation
The vowels of ship and sare both pronounced [i]
Food and foot are both pronounced with [u]
150Bath and bag are both pronounced with [a]
The vowels of play and plough
The initial consonants of thin are pronounced [t] and Heavy nasalization of vowels preceding nasals and the dropping of word seems likely that there is in fact a continuum ranging perhaps even from a basilect 2. programme in English language, literature and culture. When they arrived to take up The 21 listeners were recruited from among students and staff at a Swedish university, 3.A big farmer
Itto two cases, one native and one non
152Used to
International
Englishes?
NS NNS
yesIt is summer, live the blue life
A big farmer lifts a large loot
A big farmer leaves a large lodge
The big farmer lives large loge
A big farmer lives a large looge?
A big farmer lifts a large load.
A big farmer leaves a large Luke.
The big farmer lives in large lu???
A big farmer lifts a large load.
A big farmer lives in a large luge
A big farmer lives a large luuk??
A big farmer lives in large louge
no A big farmer lives a large look. A big farmer lives a large lootThe big farmer lives in a large loot
A big farmer lives a large...
A big farmer lives in large ?
A big farmer leaves a large look...
A big farmer lives in a large
loudgeThe large farmer lives a large
lodgeThe big farmer leaves/lives a
large?Table 1. Responses from native and non
A big farmer lifts a large load.
leaves or lives. They are interpreting load loot, look or Luke to name just a few, and the load is interpreted as lodge or large. The listeners are (1985) terminology.Speaker N1
Table 2. Summary of intelligibility issues in all eight stimuli sentences spoken by speakers sheep ship lifts, scene thin. As mentioned above, his reduction of lifts, competent judge. We can further note that his realisation of post vocalic confident, scene thin. His monophthong pronunciation of the vowels in guy fair [a] pronunciation of the vowel in car girl native and non 4.Speaker N2
Speaker N3
154intelligible to the non spoken and written by Nigerians within the Nigerian envi whether or not the features of Nigerian English are to be viewed prescriptively as errors they are intending to speak Nigerian English, t enkins 2002), there are some sounds that bat bad the question is that intelligibility criteria must be decisive here. The research of
in a way that is intelligible to a wider circle of listeners than that found in a local
Nigerian context is only problematic if the speech is indeed directed to non listeners to be prepared for perceiving Nigerian English. The speaker must adjust his or impairing intelligibility. The educated Nigerian speaker, just as the educated Northern not a part of the phonology. Certainly speakers of some Scottish or Northern Irish 156alongside teaching of Standard Nigerian English if N
Englishes are very different realit
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