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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... proficiency ( foreign - language user which I maintain means having a certain proficiency level in English ) with an internalised knowledge or competence . Now it is possible that I can determine knowledge that is competence ( but see ...
... proficiency ( foreign - language user which I maintain means having a certain proficiency level in English ) with an internalised knowledge or competence . Now it is possible that I can determine knowledge that is competence ( but see ...
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... proficiency ? As with our jumping analogy , our view of proficiency is con- strained by the kind of performance we observe among native speakers , both the ' mastery ' kind - what most native speakers are capable of - and the high ...
... proficiency ? As with our jumping analogy , our view of proficiency is con- strained by the kind of performance we observe among native speakers , both the ' mastery ' kind - what most native speakers are capable of - and the high ...
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... proficiency . ) In its more portmanteau sense of general language ability , proficiency was widely used in the 1970s and early 1980s under the label general language proficiency , synonymously with unitary competence hypothesis . Profi ...
... proficiency . ) In its more portmanteau sense of general language ability , proficiency was widely used in the 1970s and early 1980s under the label general language proficiency , synonymously with unitary competence hypothesis . Profi ...
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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