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Peer reviewedValdes, Guadalupe – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Suggests that the notion of near-native language ability, as currently used in the language teaching profession, should be re-examined. The concept of native speech is complex and often idealized, involving not only a teacher's language skills but also sociocultural norms, peer perceptions, and attitudes about ethnic or regional usage. The concept…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Language Attitudes
Cornu, A. M.; Delahaye, M. – ESP Journal, 1987
When analyzing data concerning interlanguage variation and discourse domain, it appears that learners may exhibit more control in their work-domain than in their life-story domain. Data were collected on the Dutch-French interlanguage of two university economics students to investigate the relation of domain to variation in utterances. (Author/…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch, French
