Varieties and Registers of Spoken and Written Language

Question 1

English as their native language (ENL)
USA, Australia, UK, Canada, New Zealand

Answer 1

Inner circle

Question 2

English as their second language (ESL)
Philippines, Bangladesh, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, India

Answer 2

Outer circle

Question 3

English as their foreign language (EFL)
China, Korea, South Africa, Japan, Israel, Taiwan

Answer 3

Expanding Circle

Question 4

localized varieties of English as they are used or spoken in certain areas.

Answer 4

World Englishes

Question 5

comes closest to the standard

Answer 5

acrolet

Question 6

digresses thoroughly from it and comes closest to the pidgin

Answer 6

basilect

Question 7

the middle variety, midway between acrolet and basilect

Answer 7

mesolect

Question 8

varieties resulting from certain types of education ascertained by social class are conveyed or transferred by the kind of instruction of the school system

Answer 8

edulects

Question 9

Singapore English:
actsy (show off)
missy (nurse)
chop (rubber Stamp)
Marina kids (youngsters who spend their leisure time at or around Marina Square, a shopping centre,graduate mothers (graduate (well-educated)
married women, encouraged to have more children and accorded certain privileges in Singapore), as compared to non-graduate mothers

Answer 9

READ

Question 10

Refers to the formality of language that one speaks of. Different situations call for different registers. You can determine the kind of lexicon or vocabulary to use, as well as the kind of structure to be used, through register. Even in write you may use a formal or us informal register. In some insane, even a neutral language register is identified.

Answer 10

Language register

Question 11

Used in formal speaking and writing situations. In the state of the nation address, which is classified as a formal communicative situation, the speech is oftentimes delivered

Answer 11

Formal register

Question 12

Highly characterized by archaic expressions, technical jargon that is inherent only to the community of legal professionals, embedded structures, nominalization, passive voice as well as long, kilometric sentences that are not the features of texts or language of mobile text.

Answer 12

legalese or legal language

Question 13

Simplified for the readers to be easily understandable

Answer 13

Plain English