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. |
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... child and with whom the child identifies and wishes to exchange meanings . If language learning is indeed learning how to mean ( Halliday , 1975 ) then for the child it is the mother that s / he wishes to mean to and be found meaningful ...
... child and with whom the child identifies and wishes to exchange meanings . If language learning is indeed learning how to mean ( Halliday , 1975 ) then for the child it is the mother that s / he wishes to mean to and be found meaningful ...
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... children to school . Now there may be a difference linguistically between the child born in the immigrant country and the child born in the UK in the sense that we would probably not use native speaker ( of English ) to refer to the child ...
... children to school . Now there may be a difference linguistically between the child born in the immigrant country and the child born in the UK in the sense that we would probably not use native speaker ( of English ) to refer to the child ...
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... child grows up and then wishes to rear his / her own children in their former second language it is unlikely that ... child and growing adult miss not having had it . ) As I have already suggested , it seems unlikely that it prevents the ...
... child grows up and then wishes to rear his / her own children in their former second language it is unlikely that ... child and growing adult miss not having had it . ) As I have already suggested , it seems unlikely that it prevents the ...
Contents
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 51 |
Communicative Competence Aspects of the Native Speaker | 97 |
Intelligibility and the Speech Community | 118 |
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