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Alan Davies - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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who owns english questioning the Native Speaker
Journal for Language Teaching, 2013Co-Authors: Alan DaviesAbstract:Reporting on his study of the Menomini Indians of Wisconsin, Leonard Bloomfield notes that "some persons are felt to be better models of conduct and speech than others" (Bloomfield 1927:396). Bloomfield was surprised to find such normative attitudes even in "a small community of people speaking a uniform language ... without schools or writing" (Bloomfield 1927:394) and eventually decided that "this may be a generally human state of affairs, true in every group and applicable to all languages" (Bloomfield 1927:396). In this paper, I consider the case of English, the disputes about ownership, norms and models which come together in the arguments about the Native Speaker (Davies 2003). What the Bloomfield quote above suggests is that even when there is no official standard, there is always a norm. I ask the question: which model should be used to develop an official standard for a language/dialect/variety that has no official standard? Can the Native Speaker, however marginalized, be ignored? In support of my argument, I discuss five current critiques of the Native Speaker: World Englishes, negritude and the anglophone response, English as a Lingua Franca, judgements by Native Speaker (NS) and non-Native Speaker (NNS) raters of second language (L2) performance, second language acquisition research and the unbridgeable gulf and conclude by distinguishing between the real and the idealized Native Speaker, which, in the case of English, is an instantiation of the Standard Language.
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does language testing need the Native Speaker
Language Assessment Quarterly, 2011Co-Authors: Alan DaviesAbstract:Opinions differ on the importance of the Native Speaker's concept for language teaching and testing. This Commentary maintains that it is important and seeks to explain why. Three types of grammar are distinguished, the individual's, the community's and the human faculty of language. For first language teaching and testing it is the community's grammar that matters, an idealised grammar as represented by the standard language. The Native Speaker is, it is suggested, a stand-in for the idealisation of the standard language, and since the standard language is the goal for both first and second language education, equivalent control by the second language Speaker is a possibility. This Commentary therefore refutes the fundamental difference hypothesis.
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the Native Speaker myth and reality
2003Co-Authors: Alan DaviesAbstract:Preface to First edition Preface to Second edition Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Psycholinguistic aspects of the Native Speaker Chapter 3: Linguistic aspects of the Native Speaker Chapter 4: Sociolinguistic aspects of the Native Speaker Chapter 5: Lingualism and the knowledges of the Native Speaker Chapter 6: Communicative aspects of the Native Speaker Chapter 7: Intelligibility and the speech community Chapter 8: Losing one's language Chapter 9: Assessment and second language acquisition research Chapter 10: Conclusion: who is the Native Speaker? Appendix/References/ Index
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the Native Speaker in applied linguistics
TESOL Quarterly, 1997Co-Authors: Alan DaviesAbstract:Pyscholinguistic aspects of the Native Speaker linguistic aspects of the Native Speaker sociolinguistic aspects of the Native Speaker lingualism and the knowledge of the Native Speaker communicative competence aspects of the Native Speaker intelligibiligy and the speech community who is the Native Speaker? judgements.
Betsy Huang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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citizen kwang chang rae lee s Native Speaker and the politics of consent
Journal of Asian American Studies, 2006Co-Authors: Betsy HuangAbstract:This article examines the ways in which Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker (1995) interrogates the ideological and cultural consent that American citizenship uncompromisingly demands of its Asian American and immigrant constituents. The absence of Asian Americans in political life is reflected in Asian American fiction, which has, until recently, largely adhered to the formula of family dramas that deal with the crisis of assimilation within the domestic sphere. Huang argues that Native Speaker provides a fresh perspective to the corpus through his portrayal of an Asian American politician, a figure previously unseen in the Asian American literary imagination. Through a close analysis of Lee's nuanced dramatization of ethnic politics in the dynamic of public theater of electoral politics, Huang shows the ways in which Lee exposes the representational predicaments faced by Asian American politicians, and by ethnic politicians more generally.
Umberto Ansaldo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Native Speaker and the mother tongue
Language Sciences, 2010Co-Authors: Nigel Love, Umberto AnsaldoAbstract:Abstract This article presents a historical account of the role and function in linguistic theorising of the concepts “Native Speaker” and “mother tongue”, and serves to introduce a number of articles (Language Sciences vol. 32 no. 6) raising questions about various aspects of the idealised monolingualism that underlies much modern linguistics.
Phyllis M Ryan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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cultural knowledge and foreign language teachers a case study of a Native Speaker of english and a Native Speaker of spanish
Language Culture and Curriculum, 1998Co-Authors: Phyllis M RyanAbstract:This article reports on a case study carried out in Mexico with two bilingual teachers, a Native Speaker of English and a Native Speaker of Spanish. The discussion explores teachers' beliefs about the dimension of culture in their teaching and the relationship of these beliefs to teacher instruction. Distinctive styles of interaction with students surface and raise concern about the question of cultural knowledge.
John E Myhill - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Native Speaker identity and the authenticity hierarchy
Language Sciences, 2003Co-Authors: John E MyhillAbstract:Abstract Many sociolinguistic writings (e.g. Fishman, J. A., 1972. Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays. Newbury House, Rowley, MA; Fishman, J. A. 1991. Reversing Language Shift. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon; Phillipson, R. and Skutnabb-Kangas, T. 1986. English: The Language of Wider Colonisation. Paper presented at the 11th World Congress, New Delhi) assume Native language is inherently central to individual identity, so that those members of an ethnic group who Natively speak a language particularly associated with that group are more ‘authentic’ than those who do not. Though such an ideology is true of many groups and many individuals, it is not true of all groups: some, such as Jews, Greeks, Armenians, overseas Indians, Chinese, etc., define their identity in other ways, according to religion, tradition, and/or ancestry, but not Native language. An ideology defining identity in terms of Native language will inevitably view groups rejecting this ideology as being deficient, low on the ‘authenticity hierarchy’ established by this ideology, deceptively speaking ‘other peoples' ’ languages, and perversely and insistently claiming distinctive identities and interests. It is just such an understanding of the alleged ‘natural’ connection between language and identity which was at the heart of the development of Nazi antisemitism, the view that Jews were impure, deceptive, and not normal human beings.
