nnse
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of non-native speaker of English.
name
Initialism of non-native speakers' English.
Example Sentences
- "As Braj Kachru (1985, 1992, 1996) and others have pointed out, the number of non-native speakers of English (NNSE) in the world has for some time been greater than the number of native speakers, and given the growing number of NNSE ..."
- "Flowerdew interviewed the editors of 12 international journals from the fields of ELT and Applied Linguistics in order to find out their attitudes towards contributions from non-native speakers of English (NNSE)."
- "In ELF, native-speaker norms become less relevant. Imagine an international convention held in China where medical experts from various continents gather. Would it matter at all if an NNSE's (non-native speaker of English) pronunciation [were off]?"
- "Figure 8.1 shows the students' perceptions of the NSE and NNSE varieties in terms of intelligibility. […]"
- "[…] Holliday also argues that the native/nonnative dichotomy that gives rise to negative perceptions of NNSE is a political construction."