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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... kind of input , indeed necessarily so since claims on native speakerness and indeed recognition of other claimants seem to have little to do with the kind of input in terms of dialect and so on . All I can 66 The Native Speaker : Myth ...
... kind of input , indeed necessarily so since claims on native speakerness and indeed recognition of other claimants seem to have little to do with the kind of input in terms of dialect and so on . All I can 66 The Native Speaker : Myth ...
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... kind of core in common which will allow native speaker 1 and native speaker 2 to agree that their idiolects are sufficiently similar to be regarded as one lect . I shall argue that this type of agreement , a decision of this kind , is ...
... kind of core in common which will allow native speaker 1 and native speaker 2 to agree that their idiolects are sufficiently similar to be regarded as one lect . I shall argue that this type of agreement , a decision of this kind , is ...
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... kind of performance we observe among native speakers , both the ' mastery ' kind - what most native speakers are capable of - and the high - level kind where we recognise superior levels of language skill among gifted native speakers ...
... kind of performance we observe among native speakers , both the ' mastery ' kind - what most native speakers are capable of - and the high - level kind where we recognise superior levels of language skill among gifted native speakers ...
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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