Linguists, 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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Alan Davies has taught and researched English and Applied Linguistics in Kenya, Nepal, Australia, Hong Kong and the U.K. and is now Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics in the University of Edinburgh. In the 1960s he developed the English Proficiency Test Battery, which the British Council used prior to ELTS and IELTS. A former editor of the journals Applied Linguistics and Language Testing, his publications include Principles of Language Testing (Blackwell 1990), An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (Edinburgh U.P. 1999) and Dictionary of Language Testing (Cambridge U.P. 1999).
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native speakerness, idealised native speaker, native speaker status, ideal native speaker, term native speaker, psycholinguistic aspects, childhood acquisition, sociolinguistic aspects, exceptional learners, communicative competence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British English, Singaporean English, International English, Standard English, Communicative Competence Aspects, Singapore English, Losing One's Language, Indian English, American English, World Englishes, Black English, Scottish English, New Englishes, International Language Browse Sample Pages:
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native speakerness, idealised native speaker, native speaker status, ideal native speaker, term native speaker, psycholinguistic aspects, childhood acquisition, sociolinguistic aspects, exceptional learners, communicative competence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British English, Singaporean English, International English, Standard English, Communicative Competence Aspects, Singapore English, Losing One's Language, Indian English, American English, World Englishes, Black English, Scottish English, New Englishes, International Language Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Analysing Learner Language (Oxford Applied Linguistics) by Rod Ellis in Back Matter
- Teacher Collaboration And Talk In Multilingual Classrooms (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 51) by Angela Creese in Front Matter
- Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism) by Kees De Bot in Front Matter
- Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition by ZhaoHong Han on page 17
- Language Rights and the Law in the United States: Finding our Voices (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism) by Sandra Del Valle in Front Matter
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