The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics

Davies, Alan

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“…Despite questions about the validity of the labels NES/NNES (Canagarajah, 1999a, b;Davies, 1991;Higgins, 2003;Holliday, 2005;Kramsch, 1997;Rampton, 1990), these two categories prevail in the English language teaching (ELT) profession, and the ways that teachers, teacher educators, and researchers define native English speakers (NESs) and NNESs can influence the creation of ideology. A NES has traditionally been defined as someone who speaks English as his or her mother tongue (Bloomfield, 1984).…”

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“…Davies (1991) asserts that the NES/NNES dichotomy, as a form of majority-minority relations, is power-driven and identity-laden. In order to better understand the ideology behind the term NES, how theorists and educational researchers define the term and the different varieties of English should be considered.…”

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“…Moreover, having its theoretical and philosophical foundations in liberation linguistics, it severely problematizes the sacred cows of the traditional theoretical and applied linguistics including interference, interlanguage, native speaker, speech community, ideal speaker-hearer, Standard English, and traditional English canon. Davis (2004), also, defined World Englishes as a term used to "legitimate the Englishes spoken in the British non-white colonies" and explained that the ideology behind it denies a special status for the native speakers of metropolitan English varieties and complains about these native speakers' discriminations against users of world Englishes (p. 442).…”

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A Quantitative Survey on Iranian English Learners' Attitudes toward Varieties of English: World English or World Englishes?

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Sabouri²

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This empirical study seeks to investigate Iranian English learners' attitudes toward different varieties of English in relation to the perspective of the theory of "World Englishes". Making use of a modification of matched guise technique, 165 English learners were asked to listen to a text read by native speakers of the following accent groups: British, Persian, American, and Arabic. Subjects, then, recorded their attitudes toward each of the readers using a semantic differential scale. Based on the results, the learners considered American accent to be quite superior to the others. They, also, considered people with American accent to be better teachers. These findings reveal the fact that Iranian English learners still believe in the existence of a World English rather than World Englishes.Keywords: Attitude, Native speaker, Standard English, World Englishes IntroductionEnglish as the language of international communication has for long been, and still is, spreading all over the world, and since any transmission of language brings about transformation (Widdowson, 2003), this spread has resulted in the existence of different varieties of English, each as a consequence of English contact with a certain language, culture and people. The interesting point is that the speakers of these new Englishes who use English to communicate with fellow non-native speakers far outnumber its native speakers (Widdowson, 2003).The coinage and promotion of the term World Englishes is mainly associated with Kachru (1982). The underlying philosophy of Kachruvian approach argues for the "importance of inclusivity and pluricentricity in approaches to linguistics of new varieties of English" (Bolton, 2004, p. 367). In addition, in an attempt to empower new Englishes, this theory calls the labels native speaker and native and standard English into serious question and denies any special status for them.As for the context of ELT, the learners all over the world are, today, faced with different varieties of English and naturally develop attitudes toward them. Now, what is the significance of such attitudes to the theory of "World Englishes" and why should they matter? Timmis (2007) argued that the variety of a target language a learner acquires and prefers to speak in is influenced by his or her attitude towards that variety. In other words, the more positive your attitude is toward a certain variety, the more motivated you get in conforming to it. The problem here, based on the ideology of World Englishes, pops up when such conformity is not in line with your needs and motivations for learning English, i.e., you do your best to learn that variety with all its details simply because it is said to be the native and standard one. Still, a more important problem is that of identity. It follows that when a learner considers a certain variety to be the best or standard one and thus emphasizes on sounding like its native speaker, his or her cultural identity gets at stake.The present study seeks to investigate Iranian English learners'...

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“…La definición de hablante nativo ha sido discutida ampliamente, asociándose en algunos casos con la identidad del hablante o pertenencia a un determinado grupo de personas. De este modo, la persona no elige el grupo social donde nace, pero sí decide a lo largo de su vida con qué otros grupos sociales se relaciona, pudiendo convertirse así en hablante nativo de otras lenguas (Davies, 1991).…”

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Análisis Contrastivo De Las Variaciones Lingüísticas Y Culturales en La Comunicación Digital Entre Hablantes No Nativos

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A Quantitative Survey on Iranian English Learners' Attitudes toward Varieties of English: World English or World Englishes?

Análisis Contrastivo De Las Variaciones Lingüísticas Y Culturales en La Comunicación Digital Entre Hablantes No Nativos

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