Factors related to comprehensibility
The third question addressed in this study was “What are the factors related to the Expanding Circle‟s citizens‟ comprehension of Outer Circle‟s Englishes?” In the questionnaire, the authors ventured to find out if there is any significant positive relationship between the listeners‟ proficiencies of Outer Circle‟s official languages and the comprehension scores gained from the tests by using Pearson Correlation. Except English, all official languages in the Outer Circle such as Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese, Filipino, Malay, Melayu Brunei and Tamil have no relationship at all to the Expanding Circle‟s comprehensibility (see Wilang & Teo, 2012b). Meanwhile, English as stated above has a positive correlation to the Expanding Circle‟s citizens‟ comprehension scores.