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What are 3 concentric circles?
The Three Concentric Circles Model represents the spread of the English language in terms of three concentric circles: the Inner Circle, the Outer Circle and the Expanding Circle (Kachru, 1985).
How many circles are there in a concentric circle?
There is no set number of circles that can be in a set of concentric circles.
How do you find the area between two concentric circles?
The area between the two given concentric circles can be calculated by subtracting the area of the inner circle from the area of the outer circle.
What is inner circle concentric?
The Inner Circle is made up of countries in which English is the first or the dominant language. The inner circle is one of the three concentric circles of World English identified by linguist Braj Kachru in “Standards, Codification and Sociolinguistic Realism: The English Language in the Outer Circle” (1985).
What is a concentric ring?
Concentric circles or rings have the same centre.
What is concentric ring?
What is an example of a concentric circle?
Examples of concentric circles can be found in nature. The ripples made when a pebble is dropped in the water are concentric circles. The rings on the inside of a tree’s trunk are also concentric circles. The rings inside an onion form concentric circles.
What are the 3 circles of Kachru’s model and how does each circle use English language?
This paper examines the pioneering model of World Englishes formulated by Kachru in the early 1980s that allocates the presence of English into three concentric circles: first of all, the inner circle (Great Britain, the USA) where the language functions as an L1 (or native language); secondly, the outer circle (India.
What are the three 3 components influencing the comprehension of World Englishes speakers?
He also proposes the following three terms to understand the interaction between speaker and listener: 1) intelligibility (word/utterance recognition), 2) comprehensibility (word/utterance meaning, or “locutionary force”), and 3) interpretability (meaning behind word/utterance, “illocutionary force”).