Issues of Intelligiblity of Nigerian English in the Classroom
Issues of Intelligiblity of Nigerian English in the Classroom

Summary/Abstract: Communicative competence in English has been a desired goal in international settings ever since the Empire existed. However, a match, or better yet an overlap, between the expected competence and the actual performance has not always been attained or a native-like one, even if native varieties have constantly been taken as the yardstick for comparison. In international classrooms the situation becomes even more interesting and hard to tackle at times due to factors related to the various linguistic backgrounds and what is perceived as being the standard by the participants involved. Therefore, 24 intelligibility judges have been invited to take part in an intelligibility experiment for some samples recorded at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest. Some of these judges have formal training in linguistics and they were included in order to double check and substantiate our results obtained from the linguistically naive judges.

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