ERIC Number: ED481691
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 301
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ISBN: ISBN-083840511-8
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The Sociolinguistics of Foreign-Language Classrooms: Contributions of the Native, the Near-Native, and the Non-Native Speaker. Issues in Language Program Direction, A Series of Annual Volumes.
Blyth, Carl, Ed.
This collection of papers is divided into five parts. Part 1, "The Native Speaker," includes "The (Non)Native Standard Language in Foreign Language Education: A Critical Perspective" (Robert W. Train) and "The Native Speaker, the Student, and Woody Allen: Examining Traditional Roles in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Anke Finger). Part 2, "The Pedagogical Norm," includes "The Acquisition of Sociostylistic and Sociopragmatic Variation by Instructed Second Language Learners: The Elaboration of Pedagogical Norms" (Albert Valdman) and "Linguistic Norms vs. Functional Competence: Introducing Quebec French to American Students" (Julie Auger). Part 3, "The Heritage Speaker," includes "Interaction with Heritage Language Learners in Foreign Language Classrooms" (Manel Lacorte and Evelyn Canabal) and "Near-Native Speakers in the Foreign Language Classroom: The Case of Haitian Immigrant Students" (Stacey Katz). Part 4, "The Use of English," includes "The Diglossic Foreign Language Classroom: Learners' Views on L1 and L2 Functions" (Monika Chavez) and "Identity, Deficiency, and First Language Use in Foreign Language Education" (Julie A. Belz). Part 5, "The Native/Non-Native Dichotomy Debated," includes "The Privilege of the Non-Native Speaker" (Claire Kramsch); "The Privilege of the Nonnative Speaker Meets the Practical Needs of the Language Teacher" (Dale A. Koike and Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro); "Prescriptivism, Linguistic Variation, and the So-Called Privilege of the Non-Native Speaker" (Betsy J. Kerr); "Privilege (or Noblesse Oblige) of the Nonnative Speaker of Russian" (Thomas J. Garza); and "The Native Speaker: Membership has its Privileges" (H. Jay Siskin). (Papers contain references.) (SM)
Descriptors: Diglossia, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Immigrants, Language Teachers, Language Usage, Native Speakers, Russian, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Haiti
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