Intelligibility and Attitudes:. How Chinese Speakers of English Perceive Cameroon English Speech

      Аннотация: This book presents the intelligibility of Cameroon English speech to educated Chinese speakers of English living in Cameroon as well as their attitudes towards this variety of English. Motivated by the increasing growth of the Chinese population in Cameroon and the fact that even within non-native contexts, the modes of acquisition and use of the English language are not uniform, the study measures the degree to which Cameroon English speech is intelligible to the informants and equally elicits their attitudes towards CamE speech. The results got from the analysis of the data revealed that the informants had different attitudes towards Cameroon English speech for various reasons, especially because English is not a native language in Cameroon. As concerns intelligibility, we discovered that Cameroon English speech was intelligible to 47.78% of the informants. These findings led us to the conclusion that with a little effort from both when they communicate in English, comfortable intelligibility can be achieved as some of the informants showed positive attitudes towards learning and using Cameroon English speech to serve their communicative needs with Cameroonians.

Ключевые слова: intelligibility, attitudes, chinese speakers, Cameroon English Speech