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The case against the ‘native speaker’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2005

Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Affiliation:
Fulbright Lecturer at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea
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Abstract

Do we need fairer names for speakers of English? A discussion of current popular early 3rd-millennium definitions attached to the phrase native speaker (meaning ‘someone born and raised speaking correct English’), including an examination of global changes which suggest that a profoundly changed and changing world requires radically new linguistic terms.

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English Today , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 13 - 24
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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