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Direct linkDavies, Alan – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2011
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…
Descriptors: Testing, Language Tests, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
