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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"native speaker"”.
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Non-native speaker attitudes toward non-native English accents
The increasing number of proficient, non-native English speakers, both in U.S. academic institutions and around the globe, warrants considerable investigation into possible norms developing within non-native to non-native interactions. This report analyzes attitudes toward accent, a prominent …
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Native Speaker Stance-Taking In A Multinational Conference Call
… study examines the stance-taking measures of a native speaker director in a conference call, focusing on social contexts where foreign speakers are also involved. The transcript used in this study is comprised of a global departmental team meeting call from a multinational company based in …
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Third position responses in French native and non native-speaker interaction
… analytic methodology to understand how French native speakers and non-native speakers produce third position responses (i.e., question-answer-follow up responses) in a sequence of talk. Specifically, the first part of the project focuses on how French native speakers produce third position …
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A comparison of French and Kiswahili native-speaker reactions to nonnative speech
… of contextualization of the speech sample on native-speaker judgments of nonnative language. Two languages from different linguistic families were used: French and Kiswahili. Ten contextualized and ten decontextualized speech samples were drawn from oral interviews conducted and rated by …
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The effect of racialization on EFL learners’ conceptualizations of the native speaker construct
… shapes EFL learners’ conceptualizations of the native speaker construct through an experimental design. Three hundred and fourteen university students studying at English-medium universities in Turkey were invited to take an online matched guise test. They were assigned to either the control …
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Understanding ‘stuckness’ : Descriptions and interpretations of how EFL speakers and a native speaker co-manage talk-in-interaction
Taking turns in keeping the talk going is a co-managed accomplishment. When the talk does not flow, the moment is noticeable and accountable. I am proposing the use of a new term, ‘stuckness’, as an organizational concept which describes certain moments in NSNNS talk when participants temporarily …
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An Empirical Investigation of Russian Interlanguage at the Superior Level and the Perspective of the Educated Native Speaker
… interlanguage from the point of view of educated native speakers. Five members of the Moscow State University faculty listened to the oral proficiency interviews of six Superior–level speakers and commented on the interlanguage of those speakers. The resulting twenty–five hours of digitally– …
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"""I want a real native speaker!"": When the teacher's race interferes with language learning in the ESL classroom"
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The impact of learning context on the acquisition of sociopragmatic variation patterns in non-native speaker teachers of English
… compound identities. The informants are 20 non-native speaker teachers of English from a range of 10 European countries. They are all primarily mono-contextual foreign language learners/users of English: however, they differ with respect to the length of time accumulated in a target language …
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Coming of Age in Spite of the Contrast of Vagueness: Native Speaker and The House on Mango Street as Erziehungsroman
… The House on Mango Street and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker as Erziehungsroman—that is, stories whose coming-of-age process depends on the characters' education—reveals the similar process that both Esperanza Cordero and Henry Park experience as they navigate the 1960s and 1970s American …
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Functions of Code-switching in EFL Classrooms with Native and Non-native Speaker Teachers: A Qualitative Study in A Turkish University
… how code switching functions in EFL classes with native (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) teachers by using classroom observation and interview methods. To reach this aim 162 B-level students and 8 teachers were observed for 16 audio- recorded classroom hours in the School of Foreign Languages …
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Paper 1: The myth of the native speaker and Paper 2: Linguistic imperialist or cultural ambassador? The native English teacher in Japan
… in the teaching context. It focuses on the native speaker as a central narrative concept within English language education, and explores the theoretical and practical role of the native speaker in Japan today. This module (Part 1) introduces theoretical perspectives, and considers the …
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Language Expertise as a Source of Dispute in Bilingual Couple Talk
… orientation to such contrasting identities as native/non-native speaker and expert/novice categories. A total of 16 hours of conversations were audio-recorded in the couples' homes while they were engaged in everyday activities such as eating meals. The analysis of the data revealed several …
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Native-nonnative-speaker interaction in second language acquisition: an exploration of turn management, topic management and negotiation strategies in L2 Chinese
… negotiation strategies when conversing with a native speaker and how they modify their language during the negotiation process. The current study focuses on two main directions. The first is about how nonnative speakers manage topics to keep the flow of conversation or expand it to develop and …
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Communication strategies in second language teacher talk with special reference to Iranian teachers of English
… strategies consist of adjustments made by speakers to the formulation of their talk in order to facilitate communication, and these are clearly a potentially important aspect of teacher talk. Limiting communication strategies to those adaptations evident in the details of the interaction, …
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The use of the international phonetic alphabet as a tool to develop a standard pronunciation in basic level students
… everyday. Surely for the speech of a non-native speaker of English to flow and be understood, the teaching-learning process of that language must be accurate and effective. In order to make this process less frustrating and confusing and at the same time accurate and effective so an …
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A conversation analytic study on teaching moments observed in free conversations between Japanese and American friends
… of vocabulary, idioms, and culture occurs when native speakers orient to the non-nativeness of the other speakers. Native speakers of English recurrently produce “in America” and activate the other speakers’ non-native membership categorization, which occurs abruptly in a sequence with a …
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Models of professional writing practices within the field of computer science
… case studies were conducted involving one native and one non-native speaker of English to identify how English language proficiency affected professional practice. Efficiency was a major concern for both subjects but employed different strategies to make their work as efficient and …
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