Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers write by Jan H. Hulstijn. This book was released on 2015-02-15. Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, written for both seasoned and novice researchers, presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC), a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second language learning and bilingualism (more) empirical. The first part of the book provides background for and explication of the theory as well as an agenda for future research, while the second part reports on selected studies of language proficiency in native speakers, as well as non-native speakers, and studies of the relationship between literacy in a first and second language. Conceptual and methodological problems in measuring language proficiency in research on second language acquisition and bilingualism are also discussed. Further, the notion of levels of language proficiency, as rendered by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), is critically examined, suggesting ways of empirically investigating a number of questions that the CEFR raises but is not capable of answering.
Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech
Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech write by Sandra Götz. This book was released on 2013. Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech. It also reveals areas in which even highly advanced learners of English still deviate strongly from the native target norm and in which they have already approximated to it. Based on these findings, selected learners are subjected to native speakers' ratings of seven perceptive fluency variables in order to test which variables are most responsible for a perception of oral proficiency on the sides of the listeners. Finally, language-pedagogical implications derived from these findings for the improvement of fluency in learner language are presented. This book is conceptually and methodologically relevant for corpus-linguistics, learner corpus research and foreign language teaching and learning.
Attitudes of Native Speakers Toward Non-native Speakers
Attitudes of Native Speakers Toward Non-native Speakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Attitudes of Native Speakers Toward Non-native Speakers write by David Scott Wible. This book was released on 1984. Attitudes of Native Speakers Toward Non-native Speakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Way of the Linguist
The Way of the Linguist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way of the Linguist write by Steve Kaufmann. This book was released on 2005-11. The Way of the Linguist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a cliché that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel to another country or continent. The most exotic locations are now destinations for mass tourism. Small business people are dealing across frontiers and language barriers like never before. The Internet brings different languages and cultures to our finger-tips. English, the hybrid language of an island at the western extremity of Europe seems to have an unrivalled position as an international medium of communication. But historically periods of cultural and economic domination have never lasted forever. Do we not lose something by relying on the wide spread use of English rather than discovering other languages and cultures? As citizens of this shrunken world, would we not be better off if we were able to speak a few languages other than our own? The answer is obviously yes. Certainly Steve Kaufmann thinks so, and in his busy life as a diplomat and businessman he managed to learn to speak nine languages fluently and observe first hand some of the dominant cultures of Europe and Asia. Why do not more people do the same? In his book The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey, Steve offers some answers. Steve feels anyone can learn a language if they want to. He points out some of the obstacles that hold people back. Drawing on his adventures in Europe and Asia, as a student and businessman, he describes the rewards that come from knowing languages. He relates his evolution as a language learner, abroad and back in his native Canada and explains the kind of attitude that will enable others to achieve second language fluency. Many people have taken on the challenge of language learning but have been frustrated by their lack of success. This book offers detailed advice on the kind of study practices that will achieve language breakthroughs. Steve has developed a language learning system available online at: www.thelinguist.com.
Native and Non-Native Teachers in English Language Classrooms
Native and Non-Native Teachers in English Language Classrooms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native and Non-Native Teachers in English Language Classrooms write by Juan de Dios Martinez Agudo. This book was released on 2017-05-08. Native and Non-Native Teachers in English Language Classrooms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite being highly debated in applied linguistics and L2 teaching literature, the controversial issue of (non)nativeness still remains unresolved. Contemporary critical research has questioned the theoretical foundations of the nativeness paradigm, which still exerts a strong influence in the language teaching profession. Written by well-known researchers and teacher educators from all over the world, both NSs and NNSs, the selected contributions of this volume cover a great variety of aspects related to the professional role and status of both NS and NNS teachers in terms of both perceived differences and professional concerns and challenges. The strongest aspects of this volume are the global perspectives and the implications for future research and teacher education. It is precisely this international perspective which makes this volume illustrative of different realities with a similar objective in mind: the improvement of second language teaching and teacher education. In today's world, being a NS or NNS should not really matter but rather teachers' professional competences. This publication thus provides a forum of reflection and discussion for all L2 educators who need to be aware of how much they might offer to their future students.
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