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Consolidation Activity about the LALI Presentation on "The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics"

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What defines a native speaker?

Early acquisition, grammatical intuition, group membership and identity, self-ascription and ideological status

What is the difference between a native speaker and a non-native speaker?

Native speakers are idealized, while non-native speakers are often undervalued, even when they're highly capable.

According to Alan Davies, native speaker identity is:

Question

True or false - According to Davies, a native speaker is defined only by early language acquisition.

False

True or false - Non-native speakers can never achieve full communicative competence in English.

False

True or false - The spread of English around the world can lead people to feel disconnected from their native languages.

True

True or false - The idea of the “pure” native speaker is questioned by Davies

True

True or false - The concept of International English supports the idea that only native speakers should define how English is used globally.

False

Question

According to Hymes, what is "Communicative competence"?

Why does Davies say that native speaker identity is socially constructed and not biologically fixed?

Question

Why does Davies criticize the idea that only native speakers are legitimate language teachers?