Reports an investigation carried out into students' and teachers' perceptions of appropriate models of English pronunciation and grammar. The study is based on two parallel questionnaire surveys that looked at students' and teachers' attitudes to questions of conforming native-speaker norms. (Author/VWL)

Since the advent of spoken corpora, descriptions of native speaker spoken grammar have become far more detailed and comprehensive. These insights, however, have been relatively slow to filter through to ELT practice. The aim of this article is to outline an approach to the teaching of native-speaker spoken grammar which is not only pedagogically…