The Native Speaker by Alan Davies
Linguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book examines the native speaker from different points of view, arguing that the native speaker is both myth and reality.
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Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
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Language, Power and Pedagogy
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Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages
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Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts
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At War with Diversity
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Language and Identity in a Dual Immersion School
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Teacher Collaboration and Talk in Multilingual Classrooms
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Language Learning and Teacher Education
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Bilingual Minds
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Immersion Education
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Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency
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Developing Minority Language Resources
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Languages in America
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Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts
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Social Justice Language Teacher Education
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Young Bilingual Learners in Nursery School
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Identity and the Young English Language Learner
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Curriculum Related Assessment
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New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education
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Multilingualism and Creativity
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Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages
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Reflections on Multiliterate Lives
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Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy
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Language, Space and Power
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Bilingual Education in South America
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Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change
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Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies
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The English-Vernacular Divide
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Multilingualism in Mathematics Classrooms
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Multilingual Classroom Ecologies
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Advocating for English Learners
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Bilingual Education in China
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Language Diversity in the Classroom
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Biliteracy and Globalization
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Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom
Alan Davies has taught and researched English and Applied Linguistics in Kenya, Nepal, Australia, Hong Kong and the U.K and is now Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics in the University of Edinburgh. In the 1960s he developed the English Proficiency Test Battery, which the British Council used prior to ELTS and IELTS. A former editor of the journals Applied Linguistics and Language Testing, his publications include Principles of Language Testing (Blackwell 1990), An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (Edinburgh U.P. 1999) and Dictionary of Language Testing (Cambridge U.P. 1999).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781853596247 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853596248 |
| Title | The Native Speaker |
| Author | Alan Davies |
| Series | Bilingual Education And Bilingualism |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Channel View Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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