Nnse

name, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of non-native speaker of English. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "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 ..."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of non-native speakers' English. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "Figure 8.1 shows the students' perceptions of the NSE and NNSE varieties in terms of intelligibility. […]"

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