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Garza, Thomas J. – 2003
This paper responds to Claire Kramsch's essay on the demise of the notion of the idealized native speaker as the model for second language learning and implications for second languages and cultures education. Focusing on the nonnative speaker of Russian and Russian language education in the United States, it asserts that both the quantity and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Usage