The Native Speaker: Myth and RealityLinguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book examines the native speaker from different points of view, arguing that the native speaker is both myth and reality. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 24
Page 152
... French , Arabic , Persian etc. The anguish of loss that Aimé Césaire ( 1956 : 115 ) and his fellow francophone ... French language had replaced their own mother tongues , but that they had lost something more profound . After all ...
... French , Arabic , Persian etc. The anguish of loss that Aimé Césaire ( 1956 : 115 ) and his fellow francophone ... French language had replaced their own mother tongues , but that they had lost something more profound . After all ...
Page 153
... French language ' ( p . 10 ) , their ideological need to create a sense of Africanness compelled them to seek a vehicle of expression that linked them across the continent and left no option of an African language for that purpose ...
... French language ' ( p . 10 ) , their ideological need to create a sense of Africanness compelled them to seek a vehicle of expression that linked them across the continent and left no option of an African language for that purpose ...
Page 182
... French who had ' so thoroughly mastered French that it was no longer clearly possible to distinguish them from native speakers by mistakes which they made , or by the restricted nature of their choice of words and constructions ' ( p ...
... French who had ' so thoroughly mastered French that it was no longer clearly possible to distinguish them from native speakers by mistakes which they made , or by the restricted nature of their choice of words and constructions ' ( p ...
Contents
Psycholinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 9 |
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 51 |
Lingualism and the Knowledges of the Native Speaker | 77 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accept acquired adult applied linguistics argued argument attitudes Bartsch become a native behaviour bilingual British English Cambridge Chapter child claim cognitive communicative competence context Coppieters course culture define definition dialect discussion distinction distinguish example exceptional learners fact foreign language Gumperz his/her idealised identity idiolect individual input intelligibility interaction International English issue judgements Knowledges 1-3 Konkani language learning language proficiency language teaching langue linguistic competence means Medgyes membership monolingual mother tongue Multilingual native speaker native-speaker négritude non-native speakers norms Oxford perhaps possible problem psycholinguistic question recognise regarded relation relevant s/he Saussure Scottish English second language acquisition second-language learners semilingualism sense sentences share Singapore Singaporean English Singh situations social sociolinguistic speak speakers of English speech community standard language suggested target language teachers universal grammar University Press Urdu users Welsh writing