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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... input was significantly different from learner input on four variables : rating , quality , total words and monitor . Ratings by ESL teachers showed native speaker input to be twice as good as learner input . In quality , native speaker ...
... input was significantly different from learner input on four variables : rating , quality , total words and monitor . Ratings by ESL teachers showed native speaker input to be twice as good as learner input . In quality , native speaker ...
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... input to gain the necessary linguistic competence to become , as it were , indistinguishable from the child whose ... input . But it may have everything to do with timing of input , timing probably more than kind of input , indeed ...
... input to gain the necessary linguistic competence to become , as it were , indistinguishable from the child whose ... input . But it may have everything to do with timing of input , timing probably more than kind of input , indeed ...
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... input ( on the grounds of input coming from more than one code ) than is bilingualism itself . The only area in which such semilingualism might be contemplated is that of language loss ( Lambert & Freed , 1982 ; van Els et al . , 1984 ) ...
... input ( on the grounds of input coming from more than one code ) than is bilingualism itself . The only area in which such semilingualism might be contemplated is that of language loss ( Lambert & Freed , 1982 ; van Els et al . , 1984 ) ...
Contents
Psycholinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 9 |
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 51 |
Lingualism and the Knowledges of the Native Speaker | 77 |
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