Overview of the task
Dear Participant,
This research entitled, "Foreign Language Anxiety and the Intelligibility of Englishes as a Lingua Franca" aims to explore the existence of Englishes as a Lingua Franca anxiety (EsLF anxiety), to determine the relationship between EsLF anxiety and intelligibility, and to know specific anxiety situations which affect the intelligibility of interlocutors - native or non-native speakers of English.
In this study, you will be asked to provide information about your anxiety when you use English as the main language of communication. And you are expected to answer the questionnaire and do the comprehension tests. Below are the following steps to be taken.
I. Questionnaire
1. Read the Anxiety Scale for Spoken Englishes as a Lingua Franca (ASSELF).
2. Indicate the level of your anxiety by filling out ASSELF.
2. Click Next.
II. Comprehension Test
1. Read the Measurement of Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of Englishes (MICE).
2. Listen to the audio clip for Test 1, Part 1.
3. Type all the words that you can recognize in the text box.
4. Read the instructions for Test 1, Part 2.
5. Continue to listen to the audio clip.
6. Answer the comprehensibility test.
7. Click Next.
8. Repeat steps 2-7 for Test 2, Parts 1 and 2; and Test 3, Parts 1 and 2.
* Please note that you are allowed to take some notes while listening.
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