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Peer reviewedValdman, Albert – Applied Language Learning, 1989
Deals with the construct of educated native speaker (ENS) speech, which constitutes the implicit target norm in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Proficiency Guidelines. It is argued that, in classroom foreign language instruction, such a target is too restrictive, and as an alternative, a multitarget model of language…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Language Variation
