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Cecil L. Nelson
Researcher at Indiana State University
Publications - 23
Citations - 1275
Cecil L. Nelson is an academic researcher from Indiana State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: World Englishes & Intelligibility (communication). The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 23 publications receiving 1218 citations.
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The Handbook of World Englishes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" in the following manner, i.e., "quantity-based" and "number-based".
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International intelligibility of English: directions and resources
Larry E. Smith,Cecil L. Nelson +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that in future research it would be desirable to make distinctions between three key concepts: intelligibility, comprehensibility and interpretability.
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World Englishes in Asian Contexts
Yamuna Kachru,Cecil L. Nelson +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive treatment of the spread, acculturation, functions, and evolution of English in Asia is given in this article, where the authors discuss the issues resulting from the introduction of English to culturally different contexts and the two-way interaction of English and local languages in Asia.
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Intelligibility and world Englishes in the classroom
TL;DR: The authors consider the choice of overall model of English that is presented to students and by which their English is evaluated in pragmatic rather than a priori terms, in order to understand the observable data and situations around us.